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Article 20A
 

Missions and authorities of Overseas District Election Board


(Addition: 9/5/2012-6304/2 art.)


Here are the missions and authorizations of Overseas District Election Board:



  1. To provide proper execution of voting of citizens registered to Overseas voters registry and to take all necessary precautions.

  2. To establish Overseas ballot box committees.

  3. To transmit ballot papers and stamped vote envelopes and other electoral materials to diplomatic missions via Ministry of Foreign Affairs at latest seven days prior to beginning of voting or when considered necessary to demand locally the purchase of ballots and voting booths from Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

  4. To examine and decide on objections against transactions and decisions of Overseas District ballot box committees.

  5. To answer the questions of presidencies of Overseas District ballot box committees immediately on the execution of electoral works.

  6. To finalize the objections against Overseas voters registry either directly or via consulates and to transmit decisions to General Directorate of Civil Registrations and Nationality and o make necessary registration and amendments.

  7. For the voters who are registered to Overseas voters registry but who are inside the country for pending duration for any reason, to approve their address declaration forms transmitted directly or via District Election Boards for registration to Overseas registry and to send such forms to General Directorate of Civil Registrations and Nationality.

  8. For the ones discharged from military service and whose limitations are lifted, to accept their applications either directly or via District Election Boards and provide their registrations to Overseas electoral register.

  9. To decide on suspending the registration of voters under military service (even they are off duty), military students and voters who are limited by a finalized court order, even they are registered to Overseas electoral register. 

  10. For the voters who do not take place in Overseas electoral register even their applications are accepted to be registered to Overseas electoral register, to decide on their participation to register without considering whether electoral registers are finalized and to send this information to General Directorate of Electoral Register. 

  11. To open and to count the sealed sacks after voting process has been completed in line with general principles by establishing ballot box committee composed of one president, one public officer member and permanent and reserve members from three political parties which take the highest three voting amounts in recent parliamentary elections, to make the written proceedings and to undertake combining transactions and furthermore, to combine the results coming from temporary customs gate election boards and to transmit such results to Ankara Provincial Election Board. 

  12. To perform other duties assigned by Law.