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Section 17
 

Electoral Register and Polling Card
(1) The municipal authorities maintain a register of persons eligible to vote for each polling district. Each eligible voter has the right to verify that the data entered on his or her person in the electoral register are correct or complete on the working days between the twentieth and sixteenth day before the election during normal opening hours. To verify that the data of other persons on the electoral register are correct or complete, persons eligible to vote only have the right to consult the electoral register during the period specified in the second sentence if they produce facts suggesting that the electoral register may be incorrect or incomplete. The right to verify data as specified in the third sentence does not apply to data of persons eligible to vote against whose names a blocking notice has been entered in the population registers in accordance with section 51 subsection (1) of the Federal Act on Registration.
(2) A person eligible to vote who has been entered in the electoral register or who has not been entered in the electoral register for reasons beyond his or her control must be issued a polling card on application.