Competence of National Electoral Committee

(1) The function of the National Electoral Committee is to ensure compliance with the principles provided in §1 of this Act, to resolve complaints, to exercise supervision over the activities of the rural municipality and city electoral committees and the elections managers, and to perform other functions arising from law.

(2) For the performance of their functions, the National Electoral Committee has the right:

1)  to issue precepts to the elections manager and rural municipality or city electoral committee for the protection of the principles provided in § 1 of this Act or for ensuring the subjective rights of a person; 

2)  to annul the votes cast in the advance voting in part or in full due to a material violation of law and call on the voters to vote again during advance voting or on the election day;

3) to declare the voting results in a voting district, electoral district, rural municipality, city, or the state invalidor to declare the electronic voting results invalid in full or in part and to hold a repeat vote where the violation significantly affected or could have significantly affected the voting results;

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4) not to start electronic voting or to suspend or terminate electronic voting in whole or in part where thesecurity or reliability of the electronic voting system cannot be ensured in such way that electronic voting could be conducted pursuant to the requirements of this Act;

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5) to release a member of the local municipality or city electoral committee who has violated the law from theperformance of the duties of a member of an electoral committee;

6) to file a protest with the Supreme Court in order to invalidate a resolution of a rural municipality or cityelectoral committee by which a person was registered as a council member where it has become evident that the person does not comply with the requirements prescribed in subsection 5 or 6 of § 5 of this Act.

(3) To resolve an issue within the competence of the National Electoral Committee, the National Electoral Committee adopts a resolution which is signed by the chair of the Committee. A resolution enters into force upon signature.

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