Appointment of Electoral Committees

(1) The Federal Returning Officer, the Land Returning Officers and the Constituency Re-turning Officers shall appoint the members of the Electoral Committees and one deputy for each member as soon as possible after the announcement of the date of the general election. The members of the Land Electoral Committees and of the Constituency Elec-toral Committees shall be appointed from among the electorate of the appropriate area; they should, wherever possible, be resident at the seat of the office of the Returning Officer.

(2) In the selection of members of the Electoral Committees, due consideration should generally be given to the political parties in the order of the number of second votes they obtained in the area at the last Bundestag election and the persons eligible to vote nom-inated by them in due time appointed.

(3) The Federal Returning Officer shall appoint two judges of the Federal Administrative Court, every Land Returning Officer shall appoint two judges of the Land’s Higher Admin-istrative Court and a deputy for each of them. They shall be appointed on the proposal of the Court’s President. The provisions concerning the assessors of the Electoral Commit-tees in Section 11 subsection (1) of the Federal Elections Act and Sections 5 and 10 of these Regulations shall apply as appropriate.

(4) The Electoral Committees shall continue to exist even after the general election, but not beyond the end of the legislative term.