§ 71. Procedure for filing complaint against resolution or act of county electoral committee and for review of complaint
(1) If an interested person finds that a resolution or act of a county electoral committee violates his or her rights, the person may file a complaint with the National Electoral Committee. A person whose complaint against an act of a division committee is dismissed by a county electoral committee may file a complaint against the act of the division committee with the National Electoral Committee.
(2) The complaint shall be filed with the county electoral committee which adopted the resolution or performed the act against which the complaint is filed or which reviewed the complaint filed against an act within three days as of the resolution or act prescribed in subsection (1) of this section being adopted or performed. The county electoral committee shall forward the complaint together with its written explanation promptly to the National Electoral Committee.
(3) The National Electoral Committee shall review the complaint and adopt a resolution within three working days as of receipt of the complaint. The National Electoral Committee shall promptly communicate the resolution to the complainant.
(4) The complaint shall be reviewed in public. The National Electoral Committee shall inform the complainant of the date and place of review of the complaint.
(5) The National Electoral Committee shall adopt one of the following resolutions:
1) to dismiss the complaint;
2) to satisfy the complaint;
3) to satisfy the complaint partially.
(6) If the National Electoral Committee satisfies the complaint, the Committee may decide:
1) to suspend the activities of a member of a division committee or a county electoral committee who has violated the law;
2) to repeal a resolution of a county electoral committee or to declare an act of a division committee or a county electoral committee unlawful and to issue a precept to the division committee or county electoral committee for elimination of the violation;
3) to declare the voting results in the polling division, the electoral district, the county, the city of Tallinn or Tartu or the state invalid and to hold a repeat vote if the violation significantly affected or could have significantly affected the voting results.
