Azerbaijan, Baku, 8 May / Trend corr. E.Babayev / The voting procedure for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan has been simplified. On 15 Oct 2008, the presidential elections will be held in Azerbaijan.
"Under the amendments to the Election Code of Azerbaijan, citizens, whose names have not been included in the election lists, will be able to cast their vote by submitting their passports," Mubariz Gurbanli, Deputy Secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan party, stated to Trend .
The amendments and supplements were introduced into the Election Code of Azerbaijan after the joint discussions between Azerbaijan and Council of Europe Venice Commission.
Before, citizens, whose names were not included into the election lists would have to appeal to courts to get permission for voting, Gurbanli said.
The names of 4,683,400 voters have not been included in the list after the first check.
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