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Article 188
 

Division of expenses between election authorities   The Ministry of Justice is responsible for: the expenses arising from the register of electors, the national candidate register and polling station register and other result programmes and information systems of the Ministry of Justice that are used in the election;  the expenses incurred due to the drafting of polling cards and their delivery to the enfranchised citizens  the expenses arising from ballots, election lists, electoral rolls and other election documents and election stamps, sealing equipment and ballot boxes as well as their delivery to the central election committees of the municipalities;  the expenses incurred from posting outer envelopes for advance polling as referred to in  section 62;  the expenses incurred from organising the advance polling abroad;  the expenses incurred due to election district committees. The municipality is responsible for the expenses of the operations of the central election committee, election committees, election commissions and expenses of election assistants in advance polling stations and at-home voting, as well as expenses other than those laid down in subsection 1 that are incurred due to the conducting of the election. In relation to all other elections than municipal elections, the Ministry of Justice pays the municipality a lump sum in euros that has been confirmed by the Ministry per each enfranchised person who is resident in the municipality.   Other authorities are responsible for the expenses incurred in relation to the conducting of duties they are responsible for, which are other than those referred to in subsection 1.