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Article 23
 

(1) The electorate shall be registered in the electoral lists. For the electoral lists the specimen in Schedule 2 shall be used.

(2) The setting up of the electoral lists is the duty of the communities within the conferred jurisdiction of the federation.

(3) The electoral lists shall be set up by the communities on the basis of the voters’ records.

(4) In communities not partitioned in precincts the electoral lists shall be set up according to the alphabetical order of the names of the persons having the right to vote; if, however, a community is partitioned in precincts they shall be set up according to precincts and, if applicable, to towns, streets, and house numbers.