Paragraph 18

 

Article 9.2 states that the State Register is to be kept in written and electronic forms. However, Article 9.3 states that the Central Register shall be kept in electronic form. Presumably this means that the body responsible for maintaining the Central Register – the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) – must produce an electronic database. If the intention of the drafters of the law was to create a legal prohibition on the CEC making printed copies of the Central Register (as art. 9 could suggest), a rule which might conceivably be thought necessary to reduce the risk of unauthorised copying and distribution, this should be made clear.