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Section 93
 

(1) The election office may grant a request regarding the electoral register only if the voter's data in the request correspond to the data in the central electoral register, or, for a request for registration in the electoral register, to the data in the register of personal data and address of citizens.


(2) It shall not constitute a ground for dismissal if the difference between the data of the request and the data of the central electoral register, the register of personal data and address of citizens or the central register of travel documents is caused


a) by an accent error,


b) by a spelling difference,


c) by a specification of a geographic name in a foreign language,


d) by


da) the omission of one of multiple given names, the omission or inclusion of the “dr.” title, the inclusion of a junior, senior, widowed or other prefix or an abbreviation thereof in the data set out in section 92 (1) a) or b), or


db) the provision of the data set out in section 92 (1) a) or b) in another language,


provided that the identity of the voter can be established beyond reasonable doubt.


(3) It shall not constitute a ground for dismissal if the request does not contain the birth name of the requesting person, provided that it corresponds to his full current name.


(4) Whether the data of the requesting person correspond to the data of the central register of travel documents shall be verified by the National Election Office on the basis of data taken from the central register of travel documents by direct access.