Use of voting register

Information on when and where an eligible voter has voted is entered in the voting register as provided in chapters 5 and 6. The entry may be made by an election official of a general advance polling station in Finland, the chairperson of the electoral commission, the election board, the central municipal election board or the local register office on the request of the central municipal election board. If the entry is found to be incorrect, it may only be corrected by the central municipal election board or, on its request, by the local register office.

Entries relating to voting are not public before the voting on the election day has ended. If a second round is conducted in the presidential election, the entries relating to the voting on the first round of the election do not become public until the voting on the election day of the second round has ended. (247/2002)

After the result of the election has become final, records determined by the Ministry of Justice are printed from the voting register for archive use. Thereafter, the Population Register Centre destroys the information in the register.