Publishing the electoral roll

(1) On the twenty-first day after the qualifying date the electoral roll has to be displayed for a period of ten days in an official place opened to the public. In municipalities, in which announcements are to be put up according to § 26, this period can be shortened to one week. In these cases, the period of public display of the electoral roll begins on the twenty fourth day after the qualifying date. In the City of Vienna there has to be at least one place for public display in each municipal district.

(2) The publishing of the electoral roll has to be announced by the mayor in conformity with local custom before the beginning of the period of public display. This announcement has to include the time period in which the electoral roll can be viewed by the public, the hours of the day in which it can be consulted - except on Sundays and public holidays - for at least four hours, the place where it is displayed for public view, the office where requests for amendments to the electoral roll are to be made as well as the regulations set out in para 3 and § 28 and § 33. When setting the hours of the day specified for the public viewing of the electoral roll, consideration is to be given to the fact that public viewing is to be made possible also outside normal working hours. Public viewing does not have to be made possible on Sundays and public holidays.

(3) In the time period set for public viewing, it is the right of everyone to consult the electoral roll.

(4) From the first day of public display of the electoral rolls onwards changes are only to be made on the grounds of requests for amendments and appeals made against it.
Exceptions to this regulation are cases of deletion according to § 24, para 4, the elimination of obviously wrong entries of persons entitled to vote, as well as the removal of mistakes in the formal presentation of the list, such as spelling mistakes or data processing mistakes.

(5) The municipal returning officer shall allow election assistants (§ 20a, para 1) to view electoral rolls and files regarding requests for amendments (§ 28) and appeals (§ 32) during office hours even after the end of the period of public display.