Competence of National Electoral Committee
(1) The function of the National Electoral Committee is to ensure compliance with the principles provided for in § 1 of this Act, to settle complaints, to exercise supervision over the activities of the rural municipality and city electoral committees and the elections managers, and to perform other functions arising from law.
(2) For the performance of their functions, the National Electoral Committee has the right:
1) to issue precept to the elections manager and rural municipality or city electoral committee for the protection of the principles provided for in § 1 of this Act or ensuring the subjective rights of a person;
2) to annul the votes cast in the advance voting partially or in full due to material violation of the law and call on the voters to vote again during advance voting or on election day;
3) to declare the voting results in a voting district, electoral district, rural municipality or city, or the state invalid or to declare the electronic voting results invalid in full or partially and to hold a repeat vote if the violation significantly affected or could have significantly affected the voting results;
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4) not to start electronic voting or to terminate electronic voting if the security or reliability of the electronic voting system cannot be insured in such way that electronic voting could be conducted pursuant to the requirements of this Act;
5) to release a member of the local municipality or city electoral committee who has violated the law from the performance of the duties of a member of an electoral committee;
6) to file a protest with the Supreme Court in order to invalidate a resolution of a rural municipality or city electoral committee by which a person was registered as a member of a council if it has become evident that the person does not comply with the requirements prescribed in subsections 5 (5) or (6) of this Act.
(3) To resolve an issue within the competence of the National Electoral Committee, the National Electoral Committee shall adopt a resolution which shall be signed by the Chairman of the Committee. A resolution shall enter into force upon signature.
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