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Article 26
 

§ 26. Making amendments to polling list

(1) A polling list shall be amended only if:

1) a person who has not been entered in any polling list but who has the right to participate in voting pursuant to this Act is to be entered in the list;

2) a person who does not have the right to participate in voting is to be deleted from the list.

(2) In order to amend a polling list, a person shall submit an application for the amendment of register information which is the basis for making an entry in the population register or registering voters to a rural municipality or city secretary. The rural municipality or city secretary shall review the application together with the person who prepared the polling list and shall promptly respond to the person.

(3) If a person is entered in the population register or if register information which is the basis for the registration of voters is amended such that this brings about the entry of the person in a polling list, the rural municipality or city secretary shall promptly notify the division committee thereof.

(4) A division committee shall make an amendment in a polling list on the basis of a notice issued by the rural municipality or city secretary.

(5) If a rural municipality or city secretary denies an application specified in subsection (2), the applicant may file an action with an administrative court of his or her residence against the act of the rural municipality or city secretary. The action shall be filed with the rural municipality or city secretary who shall forward the action and his or her written explanation to the administrative court of his or her location within twenty-four hours as of the receipt of the action.

(6) The administrative court shall review the action and make a judgment within three working days after receipt of the action.

(7) The administrative court shall make one of the following judgments:

1) to deny the action;

2) to satisfy the action and issue a precept to the rural municipality or city secretary to organise the entry of the person in the population register or to amend the register information which is the basis for the registration of voters.

(8) If the administrative court satisfies the action, the person shall be promptly entered in the population register or the information pertaining to him or her shall be amended and the division committee shall be promptly notified thereof.