Election type

Iceland, Parliamentary Elections to the Althing, Act No. 24/2000 (last amended 17 April 2020), accessed 10 July 2020​

Article 59. Abroad, the pre-election casting of votes shall take place in the offices of Icelandic embassies or permanent missions to international organisations, in consular offices or in the offices of honorary consulates, as determined in further detail by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs can and may also decide that voting is to take place at other locations abroad.

The election officials managing voting abroad are the heads of embassies and permanent missions, career consuls, other diplomatic agents according to the decision of the relevant head, as well as other embassy staff, the staff of permanent missions, consulate staff according to the decision of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, honorary consuls according to further decision by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, as well as special election officials appointed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs shall announce where and when polling may take place abroad.

Article 60. Voters who are members of the crew or passengers on board an Icelandic vessel on sailing routes abroad or on remote fishing grounds may cast their votes on board the vessel.

The captain or a person appointed by the captain shall be the election official.

Iceland, Act on Candidacy and Election of the President of Iceland, 1945 No. 36 (last amended by Act No. 30/2020 (took effect on 17 April 2020), accessed 10 July 2020

Art. 6. [Voters who cast pre-election votes shall write on their ballot papers the full names of the candidates for whom they wish to vote. Ballots shall nevertheless not be ruled invalid if a given name is omitted and only a family name is written, as long as it is still clear which candidate is meant.
Voters who vote at polling stations shall mark a cross, in pencil, in front of the name of the candidate for whom they wish to vote.
Other aspects of the actual poll and preparations for it, pre-election voting and voting at polling stations shall be subject to the Parliamentary Elections Act, as appropriate.]

Iceland, Local Government Elections Act, No. 5/1998, with subsequent amendments, accessed 10 July 2020

Article 43. A voter may cast his/her vote by absentee voting once there are eight weeks remaining until election day.

In the event that the election day has been decided with shorter notice than eight weeks, a voter shall then have the right to cast his/her vote on the working day following the decision on the election date.

Where elections are unrestricted a voter casting a ballot in absentee voting shall write on the ballot the full names and addresses of the regular councilors and alternates he/she elects.

The alternates shall be listed in the order in which the voter wishes them to come in as replacements. 

In other respects the Act on Elections to the Althingi shall apply mutatis mutandis to absentee voting.

Iceland, Act No. 4/2010 Concerning the Implementation of a Referendum, accessed 10 July 2020

Note: Act No.4/2010 refers to the Parliamentary Elections to the Althing, Act No. 24/2000 on the implementation of referendums.