(1) To each electoral authority in each polling station two election witnesses can be sent by each party, whose provincial election proposal was made public. The election witnesses shall be named to the district electoral authority in written form by the party representative named authorised recipient on the tenth day before the day of election at the latest; each election witness shall obtain an entry certificate authorising him to enter the polling station, which shall be presented to the electoral authority upon entering the polling station.
(2) The election witnesses shall merely be persons of trust for the campaigning parties; no further influence on the course of the act of voting shall be permitted. The election witnesses shall not be bound by any obligation to keep secret information learned from their work.