Responsibility for keeping and updating the electoral register. Distribution of polling cards

(1) The Ministry is responsible for ensuring that the electoral register is established and updated on the basis of information from the Population Registry Authority. The Ministry shall ensure that all municipalities have an electoral register of all persons entitled to vote in the municipality. A joint register shall be kept for local government elections.

(2) The final update of the electoral register based on information from the Population Registry Authority shall take place on the Saturday preceding Election Day.

(3) The Ministry shall ensure that polling cards are distributed to all persons entitled to vote who are registered in the municipality's electoral register and who have a residential address in Norway (with the exception of Svalbard⁴ and Jan Mayen).

Amended by Acts No. 16 of 11 May 2007, No. 20 of 24 May 2013, No. 71 of 19 June 2015.