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Section 90
 

Destruction of Electoral Documents



(1) The surrendered voter's notices shall be destroyed immediately.


(2) Voters’ registers, polling card registers, registers specified in Section 28 subsection (8), second sentence, and in Section 29 subsection (1) and forms with supporting signatures for nominations shall be destroyed six months after the election unless the Federal Returning Officer orders otherwise in view of pending electoral scrutiny proceedings or unless such documents could be of relevance to the prosecuting authority in the investigation of an electoral offense.


(3) All other electoral documents may be destroyed sixty days before the election to the German Bundestag for its next legislative term. The Land Returning Officer may consent to the earlier destruction of the documents unless they could be of relevance to pending electoral scrutiny proceedings or to the prosecuting authority in the investigation of an electoral offense.