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Article 12
 

(1) At the seat of the Ministry of the Interior the federal electoral authority shall be established for the entire federal territory.

(2) It consists of the Federal Minister of the Interior as chairman and federal polling officer and eleven assessors, of whom two persons belong or belonged to the judiciary.

(3) The members of the federal electoral authority must not be officials of any other electoral authority.

(4) In case the Federal Minister of the Interior is temporarily unable to attend he appoints several deputies and determines the sequence order of their being called for his representation.

(5) Regardless of its scope of competence according to § 7 al. 1, the federal electoral authority supervises all other electoral authorities. Within the boundaries of this supervisory right the federal electoral authority can, in particular, set aside or reverse unlawful decisions or orders of the subordinate electoral authorities. Decisions of the electoral authorities in objection or appeals proceedings against the electoral lists (ballot registers) cannot be reversed by the federal electoral authority.

(6) The federal electoral authority can also declare admissible an exceeding of the dates fixed in the §§ 13, 14, 16, 39, 47, 61, 106, 109, 111, 112 and 124 al. 3, if abiding by them is impossible as a consequence of traffic problems or of other unavoidable reasons. Such order must not affect dates and periods provided for in other provisions of this federal law.