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Section 26
 

(1) The administrative order (Federal Law Gazette, II, Nr. 180/2016) by the government for the repeat second round of the 2016 presidential election as well as the determination of election day is repealed.


(2) (constitutional provision) The repeat second round of the 2016 presidential election will be held on 4 December 2016. The cutoff date is 27 September 2016.


(3) (constitutional provision) Eligible voters are all men and women who are eligible to vote in a parliamentary election on election day. All eligible voters have to be recorded in newly-compiled electoral registers.


(4) For the entry of eligible voters in the electoral register, the process for filing corrections and complaints, the participation in the elections, and the location of exercising the right to vote, all provisions contained in the Parliamentary Elections Law (§§ 22, paragraph 23-37, second last sentence) shall apply, provided that transcripts of the electoral registers can be requested by representatives, who have introduced nominations for the 2016 presidential election.


(5) District Election Boards have to transmit all voting cards, which have been issued for the 2 October 2016 presidential election and which have already been received, to the Federal Election Board. The Federal Election Board has to take all necessary measures that the secrecy of the vote is guaranteed, even if certain voting cards have to be used as pieces of evidence. The Federal Election Board has to take care of destroying these voting cards, once all civil law proceedings in connection with the election on 2 October 2016 are legally completed. Applications for voting cards for the 2 October 2016 presidential election are to be considered redundant after entry into force of this law.


(6) The wording contained in Annex 5 has to be changed from “by means of postal voting from within the country or from abroad, starting from XX.XXXXX.XXXX” to “by means of postal voting from within the country or from abroad, upon receipt of the voting card”.


(7) (constitutional provision) In case of simultaneous conduct of provincial elections and the presidential election, only the elections boards that have been created in accordance with the 1992 Parliamentary Election Law, can exert their function.


(8) (constitutional provision) In case of simultaneous conduct of the presidential election with any other election and in case eligible voters registered in the electoral registers for both elections are not identical, markedly different ballots and envelops have to be used.