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Article 8
 
Article 8
District Election Commission
(1) Each political party, political movement stated in Article 7.1 and the petition committee whose proposal has been passed (Art 11.2) shall no later than 30 days before the election day announce the name and second name and the permanent address of one DEC member and one substitute to the Head of the District Office.
(2) The District Election Commission must have no less than 5 members. Should the DEC fail to have the determined number of members or should their number fall under five and there is no substitute, the Head of the District Office shall appoint the missing members from among qualified voters.
(3) The first meeting of the District Election Commission shall be held no later than 25 days before the election day; the meeting shall be called by the Head of the District Office.
The District Election Commission shall
a) oversee the state of readiness of the Precinct Election Commissions to perform their duties pursuant to this law,
b) decide on complaints of the work of Precinct Election Commissions,
c) discuss the information on activity of its expert (summarizing) unit,
d) oversee the process of finding the election results in election precincts; it is authorized to require explanations or other information from the precinct election commissions and can correct the found errors after an agreement with the precinct election commission, or ask the precinct election commission to correct the found errors,
e) find out the election results in the District,
prepare the minutes on the result of the election in the District and submit it to the Central Election Commission.