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Article 105
 

§ 105 (1) At the local elections the following election committees shall operate:
a) ballot counting committee;
b) local election committee;
c) regional election committee;
d) National Election Committee.
(2) At the local elections the following election offices shall operate:
a) local election office;
b) parliamentary single mandate constituency election office;
c) regional election office;
d) National Election Office.
(3) The delegated member of the ballot counting committee and the local election committee may stand as a candidate in another settlement, in the capital in another district, the delegated member of the regional election committee in another county.

§ 105/A (1) The ballot counting committee shall
a) check the polling station, conduct voting, arrange for the lawful implementation of voting,
b) decide disputes arising during voting,
c) count the ballots, and determine the result in the electoral district, and make out minutes thereof,
d) propose for the competent election committee to annul the results of the electoral district if it notices any violation of law that affects the results on the merits.
(2) The local election committee shall
a) call the local minority municipality elections,
b) decide the registration or refusal of the mayor, of candidates on common regional lists and in single mandate constituencies, of candidates of minority municipalities, of compensatory lists and nominating organisations that intend to put forward candidates only in one settlement,
c) draw the sequence number of compensatory lists, minorities,
d) approve the data content of the ballot paper of the settlement,
e) decide reserves regarding the election of the mayor, the representatives, the minority municipality,
f) decide appeals against resolutions adopted by the ballot counting committee pursuant to clause a) and b) paragraph (1) that concern exclusively the settlement election (the election of the mayor, the representatives, the minority municipality), and that concern both the settlement and the regional municipality election or the election of the mayor,
g) annul the results of the election of the mayor, the representatives, the minority municipality if it establishes any violation of law that affects it on the merits,
h) in the event of equal number of ballots, decide by a draw which candidate will obtain a mandate in the common regional list or the minority municipality election,
i) determine and publish the results of the election of the mayor, the representatives of the local government and the minority municipality,
j) issue the letter of appointment to the mayor, the representatives of the local government and the minority municipality,
k) call the by-election of the mayor, the representatives of the local government and the minority municipality, and determine the deadlines calculated according to calendar days,
l) initiate the decision of the body having powers, in case any violation of law is made known to it.
(3) The regional election committee shall
a) decide the registration or refusal of county/metropolitan lists and the candidates included in them, candidates for the Mayor of the capital, and nominating organisations that intend to put forward candidates only in one county/the capital,
b) draw the sequence number of county/metropolitan lists,
c) approve the data content of the ballot papers of the county/metropolitan lists, and the election of the Mayor of the capital,
d) decide reserves regarding the election of county/metropolitan lists and the election of the Mayor of the capital,
e) decide appeals against the resolution adopted by the ballot counting committee pursuant to clause a) and b) paragraph (1) that concern exclusively the regional municipality election or the election of the mayor,
f) decide appeals against the local election committee,
g) annul the results of the election of county/metropolitan lists, and the election of the Mayor of the capital, if it establishes any violation of law that affects it on the merits,
h) determine and publish the results of the election of the county/metropolitan lists, and the election of the Mayor of the capital,
i) issue the letter of appointment to representatives who have obtained a mandate in the election of county/metropolitan lists, and to the Mayor of the capital,
j) initiate the decision of the body having powers, in case any violation of law is made known to it.
(4) The National Election Committee shall
a) issue a standpoint in order to develop a uniform interpretation of rules of law and uniform legal practice regarding the elections; the standpoint works as a guideline, no appeal against it lies; the standpoint shall be published in the Official Gazette of Hungary,
b) decide any and all reserves that do not fall within the competence of the local election committee, or the regional election committee,
c) decide appeals against the resolution of the regional election committee,
d) publish the results of the elections determined by local election committees and regional election committees and aggregated nationally,
e) initiate the decision of the body having powers, in case any violation of law is made known to it,
f) report on the election of the representatives and mayors of local governments to the Parliament.
105/B (1) In the event of establishing a new community and the termination of the unification of settlements, the body of representatives shall elect the ballot counting committees by taking the electoral districts established in accordance with the territory organisation decision into account. The body of representatives of the new community shall elect a local election committee in 30 days after it is established, and elect a new ballot counting committee the latest after the next election is called.
(2) In the event of transferring, taking over, exchanging inhabited parts of territories, it is the ballot counting committee elected by the body of representatives of the receiving settlement, and the local election committee of the receiving settlement that shall take actions.
(3) In the event of unification of settlements, the election committee of the settlement that has a larger population on 1 January in the year of the election shall take actions in both settlements.
(4) In the event of annexing a settlement to another county, the provisions of this Act shall be applied in the electoral procedure considering the fact that the territory organisation decision ordering the annexation of the settlement to another county enters into force on the day of calling the election.