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Article 35
 

(1) Election offices are bodies fulfilling the state's responsibilities in connection with preparing, organising, conducting the elections, providing voters, candidates and nominating organisations with information free from any party bias, handling electoral data, creating technical conditions, checking compliance with statutory conditions and professional rules.
(2) Except for ballot counting committees, an election office shall operate beside each election committee, and at foreign representations. Beside the ballot counting committee one member of the local election office shall act as the keeper of the minutes.
(3) The head of the local and the parliamentary single mandate constituency election office shall be the competent clerk; the head of the regional election office shall be the county/capital-clerk. The head of the election office at foreign representations shall be delegated by the head of the National Election Office for an indefinite period.