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Article 59
 

§ 59. Procedure for filing complaints against decisions or acts of county electoral committee and for review of complaints

(1) If an interested person finds that an act of a county electoral committee violates his or her rights, the person may file a complaint with the National Electoral Committee. A person whose complaint against an act of a division committee is dismissed by a county electoral committee may file a complaint against the act of the division committee with the National Electoral Committee.

(2) The complaint shall be filed with the county electoral committee which made the decision or performed the act against which the complaint is filed or which reviewed the complaint filed against an act within three days as of the decision or act prescribed in subsection (1) being made or performed. The county electoral committee shall forward the complaint together with its written explanation promptly to the National Electoral Committee.

(3) The National Electoral Committee shall review the complaint and shall make a decision within three working days as of receipt of the complaint. The National Electoral Committee shall promptly communicate the decision to the complainant.

(4) The complaint shall be reviewed in public. The National Electoral Committee shall inform the complainant of the date and place of review of the complaint.

(5) The National Electoral Committee shall make one of the following decisions:

1) to dismiss the complaint;

2) to satisfy the complaint;

3) to satisfy the complaint partially.

(6) If the National Electoral Committee satisfies the complaint, the Committee may decide:

1) to suspend the activities of the member of a division committee or county electoral committee who violated the law;

2) to repeal a decision of a county electoral committee or declare an act of a division committee or county electoral committee unlawful and to issue a precept to the division committee or county electoral committee for elimination of the violation;

3) to declare the voting results in the division, the county, the city of Tallinn or Tartu or the state invalid and to hold a repeat vote if the violation significantly affected or could have significantly affected the voting results.