For voting during a polling session in elections to the Althingi, presidential elections and referendums, electoral commissions shall use an electronic electoral register, in which case voters may cast their votes at any polling ward within the constituency, excluding the polling ward of a municipality whose municipal council has obtained authorisation to use a printed electoral register.
For voting during a polling session in municipal elections, electoral commissions shall use an electronic electoral register, and voters may then vote at any polling ward within the municipality.
Registers Iceland shall decide the design and appearance of electronic electoral registers and provide municipalities with software for use during the voting on polling day.
After receiving proposals from the National Electoral Commission and Registers Iceland, the Minister shall issue a regulation further providing for, inter alia, the design and version of the electoral register, the treatment of data in the register, the register’s security certification, requirements to be made on hardware used in polling, at what point the use of an electoral register shall no longer be permitted in the event of a fault or disturbance within the meaning of Article 88, and what requirements shall be made on an electronic electoral register to enable electoral commissions to determine at any given time whether or not a voter has cast a ballot.
A regulation issued by the Minister after receiving the proposal of the National Electoral Commission may prescribe, based on a reasoned request by the municipal council, that the voters in a given municipality must cast their votes within the polling ward to which they have been assigned according to the electoral register.
