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Article 29
 

District Election Board

(1) Each Political Party or coalition which has duly registered its list of candidates may delegate one member and one stand-in to represent the party/coalition on a district election board in a district within the region where its list of candidates has been registered. The district election board member and his/her stand-in shall be delegated no later than thirty days prior to the day of the election. The district election board shall be called into its first session by the head of the district State administration office, and in the cities of Prague, Brno, Ostrava, and Plzeå by the Mayor of each city so that the session shall be commenced no later than on the third day following the final date stipulated in the preceding clause.

(2) The district election board shall:

ensure that electoral laws and statutes are observed;

decide in the instance of complaints against procedures taken by ward election boards, and in the instance of appeals against decisions taken by ward election boards. A decision delivered by the district election board shall be binding on such election boards;

supervise its vote counters totalling the vote count received in electoral wards;

have the right to request that ward election boards provide further data and explanations should any doubt arise, and either correct apparent errors after approval by the ward election board concerned or, in less routine cases, ask the ward election board to call a new session and rectify the deficiencies discovered;

deliver the aggregate number of the vote count received in electoral wards falling within its district electoral area to the respective regional election board;

perform further duties and obligations arising from this Act and other applicable laws and statutes as well as assignments which it shall be committed to discharge by the regional election board.