Section 6 applies accordingly to Postal Ballot Officers and Postal Ballot Boards, subject to the following provisos:
section 8 subsection (1) of the Federal Elections Act, or if Postal Ballot Boards are established pursuant to section 8 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act for individual or several municipalities or for individual administrative districts within a constituency, the number of postal ballot return letters allotted to a Postal Ballot Board may not be so small as to reveal how individual voters have voted; at least fifty postal ballot return letters should be allotted to each Postal Ballot Board.
Boards are to be established in the event of an order as per section 8 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act to ensure that the result of the postal ballot can be established on the actual election day.
order as per section 8 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act, one of these municipalities must be charged with conducting the postal ballot.
appointed, wherever possible, from among the electorate of the constituency who are resident in the place where the office of the Constituency Returning Officer is located; the members of Postal Ballot Boards for individual or for several municipalities or for individual administrative districts within a constituency must be appointed, wherever possible, from among the electorate resident in the respective municipalities or administrative districts.
Postal Ballot Board public, advises the Postal Ballot Officer and his or her deputy of their obligation to perform their duties impartially and to keep confidential any information they have received in the course of their official duties, informs the members of the Postal Ballot Board of their duties and calls the Postal Ballot Board together; the same applies accordingly to the establishment of two or more Postal Ballot Boards for one constituency. If Postal Ballot Boards are established for individual or several municipalities or for individual administrative districts within a constituency, the relevant municipal authority or the municipal authority in charge of the postal ballot as per number 3, or the administrative authority of the respective district discharges these duties.
of postal ballot return letters in accordance with section 75 subsections (1) and (2) if at least three members are present, including the Electoral Officer and the record keeper or their deputies, and to have a quorum for the determination and establishment of the postal ballot result as per section 75 subsection (3) if at least five members are present, including the Electoral Officer and the record keeper or their deputies.
