Print out duplicate voting cards during
vote reception

When you take receipt of voters’ votes, you must print out their duplicate voting cards if possible, rather than using an expatriate voting card. Only use an address card if you have no other option, to avoid the risk of it containing errors or being unreadable.

Vote reception abroad

Sending duplicate voting cards to voters

You may also be contacted by voters who want a duplicate voting card to be sent to them so they can send a postal vote.

A voting card is not required in order for a postal vote to be accepted. However, if the voter includes their voting card, this facilitates delivery of their vote. You should therefore offer to provide the voter with a duplicate voting card, but also explain that it’s possible for them to send a postal vote without it. It’s important to avoid a situation where voters abstain from voting, or risk their postal vote arriving late because they’re waiting for a duplicate voter card.

Instructions: how to print out a duplicate
voting card

Follow these steps to create a duplicate voting card in Valid:

1. Go to the relevant election in Valid.
2. Select the tab Röstkort – Dubblettröstkort (“Voting card – Duplicate voting card”) from the right-hand menu.
3. Enter the voter’s 12-digit personal identity number and click on Sök (“Search”).
4. Click on Öppna PDF (“Open pdf”) and then Ok.
5. Print out the document or save it if you are going to email it to a voter.
   

Printout format

Print the voting card on white A4 paper in portrait format. Fold it in half, put it in a C5 window envelope, and check that the address field is visible in the window.

Sending a duplicate voting card to
an alternative address

If a voter wants a duplicate voting card to be posted to a temporary address:

1. Click on the link Ange tillfällig adress dit dubblettröstkortet skickas (“State temporary address to which duplicate voting card should be sent”) under Personuppgifter (“Personal data”).
2. Enter the temporary address, then click on Spara (“Save”).
3. Click on Öppna PDF (“Open pdf”) and then Ok.
4. The temporary address will be printed on the duplicate voting card but will not be saved in the electoral register.
   

Sending duplicate voting cards by email

To email a duplicate voting card, follow these steps:

1. Save the pdf to your computer.
2. Email the pdf file as an attachment with instructions on how to print it (see example below).
3. To ensure that you do not save personal data in breach of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), delete the pdf from your computer immediately after you have emailed it.
   

Instructions to paste into the email

Include this text in the email you send with the duplicate voting card: “Please find your voting card attached as a pdf file. You don’t need a voting card in order to vote. However, if you plan to send a postal vote from abroad, or vote early at a Swedish embassy or consulate, a voting card will facilitate transportation of your vote.

You should print the voting card on plain white A4 paper in portrait format. Check your print settings to make sure that the voting card has not been rotated or rescaled.”