(1) A campaigning party shall submit its election proposal for the first and second counting procedure (provincial election proposal) to the provincial electoral authority on the thirty-seventh day before the day of election at 17:00 hours at the latest; § 122 shall not be applied. The provincial poling officer shall, after an immediate examination of the provincial election proposal for obvious faults, note on it day and time of receipt. If the provincial polling officer detects obvious faults in a timely submitted provincial election proposal, the provincial polling officer shall at the party’s request grant leave for improvement, in which case the re-submission of the improved provincial election proposal shall be effected within the same period as provided for the submission of provincial election proposals, and shall only then note the receipt.
(2) The provincial election proposal must be signed by at least three members of the National Council or supported by persons, who were registered in a community of the provincial constituency on the qualifying date as having the right to vote in the electoral list, i.e. in the provincial constituencies of Burgenland and Vorarlberg by 100 each, in the provincial constituencies of Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol by 200 each, in the provincial constituencies of Upper Austria and Styria by 400 each, and in the provincial constituencies of Lower Austria and Vienna by 500 each. The declarations of support filled out according to the specimen in Schedule 4 and personally signed according to al. 3, shall thereby be attached to the provincial election proposal.
(3) The declaration of support shall contain the confirmation of the community that the person named in the declaration was registered in the voters’ records on the qualifying date as having the right to vote. This confirmation shall only be given by the community if the person named in the declaration appears in person before the community authority in charge of the keeping of the voters’ records, has proven his identity by providing an identity document with the person’s photo (e.g. passport, ID card, driving licence, post office ID document), if the declaration of support contains the information as to first and family name, date of birth and address, and the name of the campaigning party to be supported, and if the personal signature of the person named in the declaration of support was either given before the community or certified by court or notary.
(4) The communities are obliged to issue a confirmation according to al. 3 without delay and free of administrative charges, or other charges or fees. Such confirmation may only be issued once for a person.
