(1) Any voter is under duty to assume the task of polling supervisor or appointed elector. Polling supervisors and appointed electors are obliged to make themselves familiar with their tasks and, if the local council so requests, to attend a meeting before election day in order to receive the necessary instructions etc.

(2) The members of the election committee, polling supervisors and appointed electors shall perform the tasks incumbent upon them except when absent. In the absence of a member of the election committee, his or her substitute shall join the election committee. In the absence of a polling supervisor or an appointed elector, the group in the local council having appointed the appropriate person shall appoint a new polling supervisor or a new appointed elector.

(3) Allowances are granted to members of the election committee, to polling supervisors and to appointed electors for their assistance during the election process, including for instruction prior to election day of polling supervisors and appointed electors on their tasks, see subsection 1, second sentence. Allowances are paid according to the rules laid down in the Local Government Act. Notwithstanding, the local council can decide in a meeting that allowances
shall not be granted, or that the allowances granted shall be a different amount than what follows from the rules laid down in the Local Government Act. The allowances paid per day can nevertheless not exceed the quintuple of the amount laid down in the Local Government Act for meetings that do not exceed 4 hours.