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Feel free to copy, paste and forward this bulletin to all the non-Maltese EU friends, relatives, colleagues and contacts on your e-mail database, inviting them to do likewise.

Ensure you bring both your Maltese identity card (even if expired) and
voting document with you to the polling station on Saturday, June 6th in
order to cast your vote.

1) Please see a specimen copy of the European Parliament ballot paper on
this link:

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2) The voting system:

Who am I voting for? Six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to
represent Malta and Gozo. (Malta’s entitlement to a sixth seat is subject to
the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in all EU member states).

The ballot paper lists the name of each candidate along with their party
name, party logo and address.

Please ensure that you do not write a tick or an ‘X’ anywhere on the ballot
paper, but numerically rank the candidates, in order of preference, as
follows:

Put a 1 in the empty box next to the party logo and name of your first
choice candidate, a 2 next to your second choice candidate, a 3 next to your
third choice, and so on. You can rank as few or as many candidates as you
like.

If you make a mistake then you can ask the polling staff to give you another
ballot paper.

You may also be voting in local council elections, using the same electoral
system, on the same day.

To be elected, a candidate must reach a set amount of votes known as the
quota.

The votes are counted in stages. In the first stage only first preferences
are counted. Anyone who reaches the quota is elected. Any votes received
over the quota are not needed by the elected candidate and so are
transferred to the second preference.

If not enough candidates have then reached the quota, the candidate with the
lowest number of votes is eliminated and all of their votes are passed to
the next preference on the ballot papers. This process is repeated until all
six candidates have been elected.

Should you seek any clarification about these procedures, please contact
Oisin Jones-Dillon (Irish-Maltese citizen) at:
<mailto:jonesdillon [Email address: jonesdillon #AT# onvol.net - replace #AT# with @ ]> jonesdillon [Email address: jonesdillon #AT# onvol.net - replace #AT# with @ ] Tel: 21-577813 or
Mobile: 79-324845.

Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party

<http://www.adgozo.com/?news=2830&search=refunds>

Arnold Cassola Yvonne Ebejer
Arqueros

Tel: 79-372460 Tel: 99-854285

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