At the State level, under the mechanism laid down in the Election Law of BiH (Article 10.12), a number of issues arise. One of them may appear technical, but is nonetheless important and is as follows: the number of delegates is fixed i.e. 58, comprising 17 Bosniacs, 17 Croats, 17 Serbs and seven representing the others. Of the 17 seats allocated to each constituent people only 7 are not allocated automatically to cantons since the other 10 are allocated by law to each canton; these delegates are not directly elected, but are elected by the 10 cantonal assemblies and the problem is to ensure the distribution of the 7 seats among the 10 cantons (Article 10.12 (1)) and, in each of the cantons, to allocate the seats amongst the three constituent peoples and others (Article 10.12 (2)). Once this is done, the overall result for the Federation must still be 17 delegates for each of the 3 constituent peoples (i.e. 17 x 3 = 51) and 7 delegates for others (51+7=58), giving a total of 58 delegates.