(1) Where the number of voters recorded in the electoral register in a polling district designated for absentee voting exceeds one thousand five hundred, the head of the local election office may decide, no later than on the fifth day before voting day, to divide the polling district electoral register into multiple parts, and

a) to conduct voting in a single polling station in a manner that the members of the polling station commission perform the procedural acts laid out in sections 176 to 179 at several separate locations within a single polling station,

b) to divide the designated polling district into polling sub-districts and to conduct voting in multiple separate polling stations within a single building.

(2) Where the number of voters recorded in the electoral register in a polling district designated for absentee voting exceeds two thousand, voting shall be conducted in accordance with paragraph (1) a) or b).