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Article 167
 

§ 1. An election commissioner shall be in charge of:


1) supervising compliance with the election law;


2) ensuring, in cooperation with authorities of territorial self-government units and election officers, organisation of elections to councils on the territory of a voivodship;


3) establishing territorial election commissions and dissolving territorial election commissions in elections of authorities of territorial self-government units after performance of their statutory tasks;


3a) appointment of precinct election commissions and dissolution of precinct election commissions after the performance of their statutory tasks;


3b) creating and changing the voting precincts, in particular determining their numbers and boundaries and seats of precinct election commissions;


3c) managing printing of voting cards in the elections of local government bodies territorial and ensuring their transfer to the relevant election commissions;


3d) dividing the municipality, county and voivodship respectively into constituencies, determining their limits, numbers, and the number of councillors elected in each constituency, in elections bodies of local government units;


4) consideration of complaints about operation of territorial election commissions;


5) controlling, within the scope determined by the National Election commission, correctness of drawing up of lists of voters;


6) making known to the public information on composition of territorial election commissions established on the territory of a voivodship;


7) providing, where necessary, territorial, precinct election commissions and election officers with explanations;


8) determining cumulative results of elections to councils and elections of municipality heads carried out on the territory of a voivodship and announcing them under the procedure stipulated in the code;


9) submitting a report on the electoral process on the territory of a voivodship, together with results of elections, to the National Election Commission;


10) performing other activities stipulated in Acts or ordered by the National Election Commission.


§ 2. An election commissioner shall annul resolutions of territorial and precinct election commissions adopted in breach of the law or not compatible with guidelines of the National Election Commission and shall refer the case to a competent commission for a review or shall rule on the case.


§2a. The election commissioner is the supervisor of election officers.


§ 3. An election commissioner shall issue decisions within the scope of his/her statutory rights.