Methodology and supervision of the list compilation process

(amended by Law No. 74/2012)

1. The minister responsible for the civil status service shall issue orders and instructions on:

a) keeping, processing, updating, changing, extracting, and publishing the NCSR’s electoral data;

b) procedures and deadlines for compiling and announcing the lists and extracts of electoral components, voter notification, as well as making voter lists available to the subjects envisaged in this Code;

c) administration of polling units, in compliance with Article 62, splitting or merging of voter lists, as well as any other aspects related with the compilation of voter lists pursuant to this Code and the civil status legislation;

ç) templates and forms used in the process of voter lists compilation.

2. The General Directorate of Civil Status shall supervise and monitor all actions conducted at the NCSR, instruct and manage, in terms of methodology, the work of the civil status offices, request them to verify and redress problems identified in the NCSR, take disciplinary measures against civil status officers who violate procedures on electoral component administration, and propose to the CEC to undertake disciplinary measures against mayors who violate the rules established in this Code.

3. The CEC shall supervise the process of the voter lists compilation, the administration of the polling units and the number of voters per voting centre. The CEC shall request information from the General Directorate of Civil Status and from local government units. The CEC shall impose sanctions to officials of the relevant institutions, in compliance with this Code, in the event of observed violations and failure to provide information.