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Article 29
 

Use of the voting register As provided in Chapters 5 and 6, when and where an enfranchised person has voted shall be entered into the voting register. The entry may be made by an election official of a general advance polling station in Finland, the chairperson of the election commission, the election committee, the municipal central election committee or by the local register office at the request of the central election committee. If the entry is found to be incorrect, it may only be corrected by the municipal central election committee or, at its request, by the local register office. The entries relating to voting shall not be made public until after the voting on the polling day has ended. If a second round is conducted in the Presidential election, the entries relating to the voting in the first round of the election do not become public until the voting on the polling day of the second round has ended. After the result of the election has entered into force, records prescribed by the Ministry of Justice are drawn from the voting register for archive use. Thereafter the Population Register Centre destroys the information in the register.