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Article 6
 

(1) The operation and activity of election committees as well as the data available to election committees, except for the statutory exception, shall be public. The publicity of the electoral procedure may not infringe the secrecy of the election, personal rights and rights related to the protection of personal data.
(2) The computerised data of the election may be required by anybody under the same conditions, against payment of a fee.
(3) On useful information regarding the election (such as the time and venue of voting, candidates, the posting of the register, the method of voting, the results of the election) the competent election office shall issue an announcement.
(4) The names of the members of the election committee and the head of the election office, the address of the office of the election bodies shall be published the way it is customary locally; the name of the members of the parliamentary single mandate constituency and the regional election committees in the official journal of the metropolitan, county general assembly, the details of the National Election Committee in the Official Gazette of Hungary.
(5) The election offices shall arrange for the voters to receive general information about the details of the elections and replies to their questions.
(6) On polling day, prior to the termination of voting, election offices may provide information on the number and proportion of voters.