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Section 12
 

General Polling Districts



(1) Municipalities with a population of no more than 2,500 shall normally form one polling district. Larger municipalities shall be divided into several polling districts. The local authority of the municipality shall decide which polling districts are to be formed.



(2) The polling districts shall be delimited in accordance with the local conditions so as to make it as easy as possible for the entire electorate to participate in the election. No polling district shall have a population of more than 2,500. The number of persons eligible to vote in a polling district must not be so small it becomes evident how individual voters have voted.


(3) The persons eligible to vote in communal accommodation such as camps, quarters of the Federal Armed Forces, the Federal Police or the police, shall be divided among two or more polling districts on the basis of fixed delimitation criteria.



(4) The Constituency Returning Officer may combine small municipalities and parts of municipalities of the same administrative district to form one polling district, as well as parts of municipalities that are intersected by constituency boundaries with neighboring municipalities or parts of municipalities of another administrative district to form one polling district. He or she shall also determine which municipality is to conduct the election.