Division of expenses between election authorities (247/2002)

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for:

1)  the expenses for the voting register, the national candidate register and polling station register as well as other information systems and result calculation software of the Ministry of Justice that are used in the elections;

2)  the expenses for the production of polling cards and their delivery to the eligible voters;

3)  the expenses for ballots, electoral rolls and other election documents as well as election stamps, sealing equipment and ballot boxes as well as their delivery to the central municipal election boards;

4)  the expenses for delivering the covering envelopes referred to in section 62 to be used in connection with advance voting;

5)  the expenses for organising advance voting abroad;

6)  the expenses incurred by the constituency electoral committees. (247/2002)

The local authorities are responsible for the expenses incurred by the operations of the central municipal election board, election boards, electoral commissions, election officials in the advance polling stations and at-home voting, as well as for other expenses for conducting the elections than those referred to in subsection 1. In all other elections than municipal elections, the Ministry of Justice pays the local authorities a lump sum compensation in euros, confirmed by the Ministry, which is based on the number of eligible voters in the municipality. (563/2015)

Other authorities are responsible for other expenses than those referred to in subsection 1 incurred when carrying out their duties.