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Section 89
 

Safeguarding of Electoral Documents



(1) The voters’ registers, the polling card registers, the registers specified in Section 28 subsection (8), second sentence, and in Section 29 subsection (1) the forms with supporting signatures for nominations and surrendered voter’s notices shall be stored in such a manner as to be protected against perusal by unauthorized persons.


(2) Information from voters’ registers, polling card registers and registers specified in Section 28 subsection (8), second sentence, and in Section 29 subsection (1) may only be disclosed to authorities, courts of law and other official bodies of the electoral area, and only then if they are required by the recipient in connection with the election. Such a requirement exists in particular with regard to suspicion of electoral offenses, matters of electoral scrutiny and work connected with electoral statistics.


(3) Members of electoral bodies, office-bearers and persons specially commissioned by the public authorities may only disclose information in respect of supporting signatures for nominations to authorities, courts of law and other official bodies in the electoral area, and only then if the information is required for the administration of the elec-tion or electoral scrutiny proceedings or for the investigation of a suspected electoral offense.