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Section 12
 

(1) Municipalities with a population of no more than 2,500 normally form a polling  district. Larger municipalities are divided into several polling districts. The municipal  authority decides which polling districts are to be formed.


(2) The polling districts should be delimited according to local conditions in a manner  that makes it as easy as possible for the entire electorate to participate in the election. No  polling district should have a population of more than 2,500. The number of persons  eligible to vote in a polling district may not be so small as to reveal how individual voters  have voted.


(3) The persons eligible to vote in collective living quarters such as camps, quarters of  the Federal Armed Forces, the Federal Police or the police, should be divided among two  or more polling districts on the basis of fixed delimitation criteria.


(4) The Constituency Returning Officer may combine small municipalities and parts of  municipalities of the same administrative zone to form one polling district, and may merge parts of municipalities that are intersected by constituency boundaries with neighbouring  municipalities or parts of municipalities of another administrative zone to form one polling  district. The Constituency Returning Officer determines which municipality conducts the  election.