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Article 26
 

(1) If, in accordance with the Law on National Referendums and Legislative Initiatives, not less than 10,000 Latvian citizens eligible to vote have initiated a fully elaborated draft law or a draft amendment to the Constitution or if the President of the State has suspended the proclamation of a law, the city, county and pagasts election commissions shall make it possible for voters to sign petition lists and shall send these lists to the Central Election Commission in accordance with the procedure set by the Central Election Commission.

(2) In preparing a national referendum, the election commissions of major cities and district election commissions shall:

1) consider issues related to the preparation and conduct of a national referendum in the administrative territory of the respective city or district;

2) check that the voting rooms in all polling stations conform to requirements set by law;

3) render assistance to polling station commissions in providing them with transport, communications and other technical equipment;

4) receive ballot papers from the Central Election Commission and deliver them to polling station commissions;

5) ensure that on voting day additional ballot papers are delivered to the polling stations where they are in short supply;

6) when the voting is over, receive election commission minutes (vote-counting records) from polling station commissions, check these records, tally the votes for the entire major city or district, record the results and deliver them to the Central Election Commission, together with the polling station commission records;

7) present to the Central Election Commission a financial report on a standardised form;

8) perform other duties related to national referendums.

(As amended by the 02.11.2000 law and the 13.06.2002 law)