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Section 71
 

Electoral rolls and their delivery


After the advance voting period has ended, the Ministry of Justice shall ensure that an electoral roll for each voting district is printed out from the voting register starting on the 4th day before the election day at 19.00 and delivered to the central municipal election boards in good time before the election day. The Ministry may order that the central municipal election board is responsible  for printing out the electoral rolls for the voting districts in the municipality. The Ministry may also order that the information included in the electoral rolls be delivered to the central municipal election board in electronic form.


Only those persons who have not, according to the entries made in the voting register, used their right to vote in the advance voting will be included in the electoral rolls. Voting-district specific electoral rolls are printed out following the alphabetical order of the names of the voters in the voting district, or in the manner determined by the Ministry of Justice. The heading of an electoral roll specifies the electoral district in parliamentary elections, presidential elections and elections to the European Parliament and, in all elections, the municipality and the voting district in question. An electoral roll contains the full name and personal identity code of each voter included in the roll. If information on an order of non-disclosure for personal safety reasons referred to in section 18, subsection 2, paragraph 11 or section 18, subsection 4, paragraph 5 has been entered in the voting register, an entry concerning this is printed also on the electoral roll.


The Ministry of Justice may, if necessary, for special reasons order the electoral rolls to be printed out from the voting register immediately after the register has become legally valid and to be delivered without delay to the central municipal election board in question.


The central municipal election board shall ensure that the electoral rolls are at the disposal of the election boards before the voting on election day begins. Electoral rolls are not public before the voting on election day has ended. If a second round is conducted in the presidential election, the electoral rolls of the first round of the election do not become public until the voting on the election day of the second round has ended. However, the information in the electoral rolls is not public when it comes to persons concerning whom an entry indicating an order of non-disclosure for personal safety reasons referred to in subsection 2 has been printed on the roll.