Article 16

 

The State Election Commission shall:

< >take care of the legality in the preparation and conduct of the elections, and give instructions and clarifications for the implementation of this Law; 





appoint the composition of the Election Commissions; < value="3" >educate Election Commission members;  




< value="4" >announce the total results of the elections for council members and mayor within 3 days following election day;  


< value="5" >submit a report to the Parliament on the elections conducted;  


< value="6" >form assisting bodies to carry out organizational and technicalmatters;  


< value="7" >establish common standards concerning the election material;  


< value="8" >prescribe forms for conducting elections and publish them in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia”;


< value="9" >hand over the election material to the Election Commissions;  


< value="10" >determine the way of handling and securing the election material;  


< value="11" >organize the printing of ballots;  


< value="12" >determine the form, size, colour and serial numbers of the ballots;  


< value="13" >perform the duties provided by the Law on Voters’ List;  


< value="14" >prescribe the type of device for marking and controlling  the persons who have voted (UV lamp, spray, graphite pad);  


 

< value="15" >publish the descriptions of the polling units for the appropriate municipality in the daily press;  


 

< value="16" >inform the public of the way of voting and of the exercise of the right to vote;  


 

< value="17" >adopt a code on the rules  for the monitoring of elections by domestic and foreign observers, in accordance with international standards, and provide them with identification documents;


 



pass a Rulebook and Guide for the compensation of the election management bodies;



 

< value="19" >inform the public on the course of the elections;  


 

< value="20" >submit a financial report on its activities for the conducted elections to the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia; and


 

< value="21" >perform other duties provided by law.  


 




 

 
The forms of the minutes in the local self-government units where at least 20% of the citizens speak an official language different from Macedonian shall be printed in addition to Macedonian and its Cyrillic alphabet, also in the official language and alphabet spoken by at least 20% of the citizens in the pertinent local self-government unit.