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Law On General Elections, County And Municipal Councils (Election Law)

Original Language Title: Lov om valg til Stortinget, fylkesting og kommunestyrer (valgloven)

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Law of election to Parliament, the county of the county and the City Manager (election law)

Date LAW-2002-06-28-57
Ministry of Municipal and Modernization Department
Last modified LAW-2016-06-17-59 , LAW-2016-06-17-62
Published In 2002 booklet 6
Istrontrecation 01.09.2002
Changing LAW-1985-03-01-3
Announcement
Card title Election Law-Elect Elect.

Capital overview :

Lovens title modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715). -Jf. law 12 June 1987 number 56 kep 2 (selection to the Samelist). -Jof. former Law 24 June 1828 with additional slings of July 1884 and 23 July 1894, law 14 jan 1837 Section 1902, 11 apr 1902, 17 May 1904, 7 June 1910, 1919 and 9 June 1922, law 14 Feb 1900 with auxiliary law 10 March 1903, law 29 March 1906 # 1 with additional slat 1 May 1909 and 27 Feb 1912, law 7 apr 1906 # 1 with additional slav 14 June 1912, 29 apr, 18 June and 30 July 1915 and 14 May 1918, law 2 June 1906 # 1 with additional slat 1 May 1909 and 27 feb 1912, laws 17 des 1920 1, 17 des 1920 # 2. 10 July 1925 # 6. 1 March 1985 # 3 .

Chapter 1. Law's purpose and scope

SECTION 1-1. Law's purpose

The purpose of the law is to put the conditions to the right so that the citizens of free, direct and secret elections should be able to choose their delegates to Parliament's Parliament, the county of the county, the county of the county.

0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 1-2. Lovens Scope
(1) This law applies at
a) election of the delegates to the Parliament,
b) selection of delegates to the county of the county and
c) selection of delegates to the city manager.
(2) It is set forth by the individual chapter or the individual provision which scope the rules have.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).

Chapter 2. Stemerett and man numbers

SECTION 2-1. Votes at the short-election election
(1) Votes at the short-term elections have Norwegian nationals who meet the following terms :
a) The person will have turned 18 years within the exit of the election year,
b) The person has not lost the voting rights after the Constitution Section 53 and
c) the person is, or has ever been, the population of the population settled as a resident of Norway.
(2) Employees of the diplomacy or consular and their household have the voting regardless of the arbitrary of the term in letter c.
(3) To exercise the voting rights, the selector must be introduced in the man's number in a municipality on Election Day.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 2-2. Voting at the county's election and municipal elections
(1) Voting at county elections and municipal council elections have those who have voting by the post-2-1 election.
(2) In addition, persons who are not Norwegian nationals, but as of otherwise, fill the terms in Section 2-1, voting if they
a) has stood introduced in the population registry as a resident of Norway for the past three years before Election Day, or
b) is a citizen of a different Nordic country and has become the population of the population that settled in Norway at the latest 30. June of the election year.
(3) To exercise the voting rights, the selector must be introduced in the man's number in a municipality on Election Day.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 11 May 2007 # 16.
SECTION 2-3. Responsibility to create and update manpower numbers. Selection of Selection Cards
(1) The Ministry of the Ministry is responsible for the number of crews created and updated on the basis of information provided by the People's Ministry of Information. The Ministry ensures that all counties are given a man's number over people with the vote in the municipality. It shall be taken to a joint manpower for county elections and city council elections.
(2) The last update of the crews on the basis of information from the population authority is happening Saturday before Election Day.
(3) The Ministry shall ensure that it will be sent out election cards to all voice entitlements introduced in the crews of the municipality, and who have the residence address domestic, except on Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
0 Modified by laws 11 May 2007 # 16, 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 19 June 2015 # 71.
SECTION 2-4. In what counties, voters should be taken
(1) Voting entitlements registered with the residence address in Norway shall be admitted to the male number of the municipality in which they were the population of the population that settled the 30th. June of the election year.
(2) Voting entitlements on Svalbard and Jan Mayen shall be manged in the municipality in which they last were the population of the population as settled.
(3) Voting entitlements that are settled outside of Norway shall be admitted into the male number of the municipality in which they were last the population of the population as settled. Foreign residents who have not been foisterled as settled in Norway ever during the 10-last year before Election Day, still have to seek the electoral board to be inreintroduced in the male number. The application must contain assurance that the person is still a Norwegian citizen.
(4) Foreign residents employed in the diplomatic or consular and their household, shall mandate be admitted to the municipality in which they were last registered as a resident. The men's lead is happening independently of the overseas exhibition's length. If they have not ever been the population of the population that settled in Norway, the crews are going to be taken to Oslo municipality.
0 Modified by law 11 May 2007 # 16.
SECTION 2-5. The head of the People's Responsibility
(1) The People's Authority duties even of own measures, without the hurdle of the legislof Law, in appropriate manner to run for the election authorities
a) a preliminary male figures based on voting rights terms per 2. January of the election year, for use for preparation of elections, and
b) information on who is to be introduced in the mannage of the municipality per 30. June.
(2) The People's region authority is to transfer updates to the preliminary manpower and updates to the crews per 30. June to the Department.
0 Modified by laws 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 13 May 2011 ifg res. 13 May 2011 # 494), 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506).
SECTION 2-6. The posting of the man's number to public aftermath
(1) The ElecBoard shall lay the crews out to public aftersight as soon as it lets. The crew is supposed to be out to the election day.
(2) The Board of Directed Board announces time and place of the outset and also details the adage of and the procedure to require errors corrected.
SECTION 2-7. Claims for correction. Introduction of the ballot of voters settled abroad
(1) The person who believes that the person himself or any other incorrect has been introduced or omitted from the mannumber of the municipality may require the failure to be corrected.
(2) The requirement shall be in writing and due, and sent the electoral board of the municipality.
(3) The ElecBoard shall ensure that a ballot that has been settled abroad, and has not been fogists as settled in Norway ever during the last ten years before Election Day, is admitted to the man's number in the municipality, if they seek tour within the 17 the day after Election Day.
0 Modified by laws 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 13 May 2011 ifg res. 13 May 2011 # 494), 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 17 June 2016 # 62.
SECTION 2-8. Underdirection of changes in the man number

The electoral board should immediately send message to the one that beratis of updates in the crews made on the basis of the application of the introduction, requirements for correction or that the electoral board has been mindful of failure.

SECTION 2-9. Prescription

The Ministry can in regulation give regulations on

a) man-count, treatment and update of the preliminary mantally and man number per 30. June, as well as the extraction of the man's for testing purposes,
b) access to and use of male-number specimens and
c) production, design, deployment and use of electoral cards, theres about the electoral duties in connection with the production and deployment.
0 Modified by laws 11 May 2007 # 16, 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 19 June 2015 # 71.

Chapter 3. Eleceability. Pliked to accept elections

SECTION 3-1. Electability of the Card Selection
(1) Selectable to the Parliament and the obligation to accept elections are all who have the suffrage by the election, and that have not been ruled out or exempt.
(2) Excluding from selection to the Parliament of Parliament
a) employees of the ministries with the exception of state counsel, state secretaries and political advisers,
b) judges of the Supreme Court and
c) employees in the diplomatic or consular care system.
(3) Whether a person should be excluded from election to the Parliament depends on whether the person holds the position on Election Day.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 3-2. Right to demand exemption from the short-card selection
(1) Right to claim exempt from election to the Parliament of Parliament
a) the one that is vocal in a different electoral district than where the person has been set up as a candidate on list proposals,
b) the person who has met as a representative on all the Stoking after the previous election, and
c) the one that has been brought up as a candidate on a list proposal that has been put forward by someone other than a registered political party that they are a member of.
(2) Candidates who have been set up on list proposals must apply for the exemption within the due date of the county election board of directors, otherwise the court's court is to be ironing by the list proposal.
(3) A selected representative or commodity representative that does not duties to receive the election must submit written message of the election received or not, within three days after receiving message of the election from the County Election Board. Otherwise, the selection is received.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 3-3. Electability of the county's election and municipal elections
(1) Selectable to the county of Parliament and the obligation to accept elections are all who have the suffrage of the election and who are introduced in the population register as settled in one of the counties of the county on Election Day, and which have not been ruled out or exempt.
(2) Selectable to the city council and pliable to accept elections are all who have the suffrage by the election and who are introduced in the population of the municipality on Election Day, and which have not been ruled out or exempt.
(3) Excluding from selection to the county council or city council is :
a) county and assistant county of the
b) the one in which the municipality or county of the county is
- management manager or dennes proxy,
- management of the management branch ; this still does not apply to the leader of single-standing enterprises,
- secretary of the city council or county council,
- responsible for the accounting function,
- the one that will do audit for the municipality or the county of the county.
(4) In the county of the county, or counties that have parliamentary steering form, employees of the secretariat of the Council have been granted authority delegated from the council, not eligible.
(5) Whether a person shall be excluded from selection depends on whether the person holds the position when the county council or the council of the council is taking effect.
0 Changed by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3), 12 des 2003 # 113 (ikr. 1 July 2004 ifg res. 12 des 2003 # 1505), 19 June 2015 # 71.
SECTION 3-4. Right to require exemption from county elections and municipal elections
(1) Right to require exempt from election to county and municipal, the one that emits written statement that the person does not want to run for office in the appropriate drop-down list.
(2) Erkconsumption as mentioned in No. 1 must be put forward within the due date of the county-election board or the electoral board puts, otherwise tares the right to be ironing from the list proposal.
(3) The person who fails to claim exempt from standing on list cannot refuse to receive elections.
0 Modified by laws 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 13 May 2011 # 494), 17 June 2016 # 62.

Chapter 4. Election organs

SECTION 4-1. Election Board

In each municipality, there should be an election board chosen by the city council itself.

SECTION 4-2. Voice Manager

The past year voting in several places in the municipality shall be a vocal test with at least three members managing the voting in each place. The Communist Council can delegate the uptake of the voting controller of the electoral board.

SECTION 4-3. County Board of Directs

In each county, it should at the stave and county election election be a county election board chosen by the county of the county itself.

SECTION 4-4. National Election Board
(1) In the years it is being held by the King an impeachment board of directors. The National Election Board shall distribute the stoking seats that are equalization mandates.
(2) The National Election Board shall have at least five members with varammembers. The king mentions the leader and deputy leader, and decides who is going to work as a work aid.
(3) The meetings of the National Election Board are held for open doors.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).

Chapter 5. Registration of political parties

0 The chapter is repea from 1 jan 2006 of Law 17 June 2005 # 102 ifg. res. 17 June 2005 # 635.

Chapter 6. Requirements for and processing list suggestions

SECTION 6-1. The requirement of the list proposal
(1) The deadline for the acquisition of list proposals is at 12 on 31. March of the election year. The list proposal is deemed to be filed when it has entered into the municipality of municipal elections and to the county of the county by the stoking election and county elections. The same party or group can only ask one list in each election district.
(2) The list proposal must meet the following terms :
a) It has to indicate what choice it applies.
b) It must have a headline that indicates the party or the group that has protested the proposal. If the list proposal is set forth by a registered political party, the headline should be enslyended with the party's registered name. The headline must otherwise not be able to be confused with the name of a registered political party, registered same-political unity or with the headline on other list proposals in the electoral district.
c) It must indicate which candidates are running for selection on the list. The candidates must not be common with candidates on other list proposals that apply to the same election in the same electoral district. The number of candidates shall meet the requirements in Section 6-2. The candidates should be listed with first names, surnames and birth years. Illumination of the candidate's position or residence can be incurred. This is to be done if necessary to avoid the switching of the candidates in the list.
d) The list proposal must be signed by a certain number of people, jf Section 6-3.
e) It must include the name of a peer-selected and a commodity representative among those who have written under the list proposal. These shall have the authority to negotiate with the county's board of directors or the electoral board of changes to the list proposal. It should also be named on a certain number of people among those who have signed on the list proposal, which should serve as the peer-level of the authority to pull the list proposal back.
(3) The list proposal must have attachments as mentioned in Section 6-4.
(4) The list proposal should not contain any other type of information to the voters than the point of view of this paragrafen.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 1 jan 2014 ifg. res. 24 May 2013 # 506).
SECTION 6-2. Number of candidate names on the list proposal
(1) At the list selection, the list proposal should be filled in order with the name of as many candidates as it is to be elected representative of the Parliament of Parliament. The proposal can in addition contain up to six other names.
(2) At the county and municipal elections, the list proposal should be filled in order with minimum seven candidates. The proposal can be a maximum number of candidate names corresponding to the number of representative officials to be elected to the county council or city council, with an amendment of up to six other names.
(3) At municipal elections, a certain number of the top candidates on the list proposal may be given a voice addition. The candidates will then receive an amendment in their personal voting number corresponding to 25 percent of the number of ballots that come the list to part by the election. Depending on the number of municipal board members to be selected, the proposal can give voice additions to the following number of candidates :

11-23 members : up to 4

25-53 members : up to 6

55 members or more : up to 10

These candidate names should be first on the list proposal and with highlighted writing.

0 Changed by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3), 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 6-3. Number of signatures on the list proposal
(1) For batches registered in the PartiRegistry as at the previous stov election, a turnout of at least 500 votes in one county or at least five thousand votes in the entire country is sufficient that the list proposal is signed by at least two of the board members of the party's local department of the county or the municipality list applies. The same applies to batches that have been recorded in the Partition Register after previous test selection. The underwriters must have a vote in the electoral district. If a registered political party is asking list proposals together with an unregistered group, the provisions still apply to the provisions of the other clause.
(2) For other forecasters, the following rules apply :
a) By the stoking selection and the county's election, the list proposal should be signed by at least 500 people with the voting rights in the county by the appropriate election.
b) At the municipal election, the list proposal should be signed by a number of people with voting rights in the municipality equivalent to 2 percent of the number of vocal-based residents at last municipal elections. The list proposal shall still as a minimum be signed by as many voice-based people in the municipality as it should be elected members to the city council. Underwriting from 300 people is in all cases sufficient.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 6-4. Appendix to the list proposal

The list proposal shall have the following attachments :

a) An overview of the candidate's date of birth.
b) An overview of the date of birth and the residence address of those who have signed on the list proposal.
c) If a candidate for county elections or municipal elections has not been introduced into the population registry that settled in the county or the municipality when the list bill is provided, it must lie by the candidate that the person will be eligible for Election day.
d) If a candidate for county elections or municipal elections is not eligible because of its position, it must be placed at a statement from the candidate that the person will have the waiver position when the county council or the council of the council is taking effect.
SECTION 6-5. Recall the list proposal

The input list proposal can be called back by the Trust Committee. Consumption of recall must be filed at the latest 12 the 20th April of the election year.

0 Modified by law 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 1 jan 2014 ifg. res. 24 May 2013 # 506).
SECTION 6-6. The campaign's treatment of the list proposals
(1) The list proposals should be posted to the aftermath of each as they come in.
(2) The person's electoral authority determines within 1. June of the election year on proposals for election lists and recall of list proposals can be approved.
(3) If a list proposal by the provision does not meet the requirements of the law, the electoral government is going to through negotiations with the list of the list of the list's trust-chosen attempt to bring the proposal in accordance with the law. The same applies to the declaration of recall of the list suggestions.
(4) The Election Authority shall inform all candidates on the list proposals that they are set up on list suggestions and enlighten the adhall to apply for exemption. An underwriter or candidate who stands on several list proposals for the same election shall be given the injunction to report from within a specific deadline which the proposal the person will be standing on. Otherwise, the person is setting up on the list proposal that was filed first.
SECTION 6-7. Offentligation of approved electoral lists

Once the list proposals are approved, the electoral authorities will put the official election lists out to review. The election authorities announce the headlines on the approved election lists and details of where they have been laid out.

SECTION 6-8. Commaking

Comp with the claims of change of the electoral board or county election board's decision to approve or reject a list proposal must be named within seven days after the announcement of the headlines on the approved election lists. If the complaint is due in the fact that the energy of the party name is violated, also has a registered political party clashes. By the way, the provisions of the complaint apply in chapter 13.

SECTION 6-9. Prescription

The Ministry can provide regulation on the processing of the list proposals.

Chapter 7. Voting ballots. Velgerne's admission to change on ballots

SECTION 7-1. Triking of ballots
(1) At the stoking selection and the county election, the county election board provides the printed ballots for all approved electoral lists in the county before the pre-voting starts 10. August domestic.
(2) At municipal board elections, the electoral board provides the printed ballots for all approved electoral lists in the municipality before the pre-voting starts 10. August domestic.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497).
SECTION 7-2. Changes on the ballot section
(1) The saleswoman can at the test selection change the order of the candidates are set up in the ballot section. This is done by putting the number at the candidate name. The voter can also fail candidate names by going forward as indicated on the ballot section.
(2) The seller can at the county of the county and city council elections give candidates on the ballot section one person voice. This is done by putting a mark on the candidate's name.
(3) The salesperson can at municipal board elections also give a personal voice to candidates on other electable lists. This is done by leading these candidate names up on the ballot section. Such personal voice can be given to a number of candidates corresponding to a quarter of the number of members to be elected to the city council. Regardless of the county's size, it can still always be given personal voice to minimum five candidates from other lists. When the selector gives voice voice to eligible candidates on other lists, a corresponding number of list votes to the one or the lists these candidates is listed.
(4) Other changes on the ballot count do not count on the election settlement.
0 Changed by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3), 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 15 apr 2005 # 18.
SECTION 7-3. Prescription

The Ministry can provide regulation on execution, printing, and envoy of ballots.

Chapter 8. Prevoting

SECTION 8-1. The period of pre-voting. Requirements for the number of voting receipts
(1) The constituters who wish it can cast prevote from 10. August of the election year domestic and from 1. July of the election year overseas and on Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
(2) The prevoting must not be done later than last Friday before Election Day domestic, herder on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and second last Friday before Election Day Foreign Affairs. To ensure that the pre-voting charges come forward in time, the Governor may determine that the prevoting on Svalbard is to be terminated at a previous time.
(3) The salesperson is even responsible for giving prevoting at a time that allows the pre-voting exit to the electoral board by the time of the 17 the day after Election Day.
(4) Voters who are currently staying domestic, except on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and who cannot cast a vote in the period of pre-voting or on the electoral council, can address the municipality and cast a vote from 1. July and forward until pre-voting starts 10. August of the election year.
(5) At pre-voting domestic, except on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, it should be from 10. August be at least two voting engine takers present at receipt of prevotes.
0 Modified by laws 11 May 2007 # 16, 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497), 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 17 June 2016 # 62.
SECTION 8-2. Who can receive prevotes
(1) As the voice-taker domestic works
a) voice-takers appointed by the Board of Directors.
b) The governor of Svalbard. The governor can bring up other voting engine takers.
c) on Jan Mayen that ministry decides.
(2) As the voice-taker international works
a) Foreign service man at the paid Norwegian Foreign Affairs station. After special authority from the State Department, voting is also able to also take place at foreign affairs official at the ultra-Norwegian Foreign Affairs station. The drive manager can when there is mandated, mention one or more of the station's officials to receive prevotes.
b) Voice of the ministry appointed by the ministry if the voting is going on elsewhere other than what is set forth by the letter a.
(3) Candidate listed on choice list by the municipal elections cannot be appointed to the voice of the municipality in the municipality. Candidate listed on the list of choice at the stoking election or the county's election, cannot be appointed to the ballot in the counties of the person in the county.
(4) If a pick that is stalling outside the realm does not have the opportunity to seek out a voting engine, the person can cast a vote by letter mail without a voting engine to be present at the voting.
0 Modified by law 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 1 jan 2012).
SECTION 8-3. In what places can be received prevotes
(1) The voting shall be in suitable and available local. Voters should be able to take their way into the polling stations without help. Other premises should not be used with less-straight reasons of the present.
(2) At voice receipt appointed by the electoral board is going on voting
a) on health and caring institutions, and
b) where the electoral board otherwise decides that it should be received prevotes.
(3) At the voting engine of Svalbard, voting is going on voting where the governor decides.
(4) At foreign affairs official at the Norwegian Foreign Affairs station, voting is taking place at the station. The station manager can decide that voting engine can take place outside the station's area.
(5) At the appointed ballot box on Jan Mayen and outside the realm, voting is going on where the ministry decides.
(6) Voters who stay domestic, except on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and as due to illness or disability cannot be cast to vote after other clauses, may after application to the electoral board cast prevote in which they are stalling. The election board determines even the deadline for when the application must be entered into the municipality. The deadline must be determined at a time within the period between Tuesday and Friday last week before the election. The application deadline shall be announced.
0 Modified by laws 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 19 June 2015 # 71.
SECTION 8-4. The procedures of the voting
(1) Selects shall in private and unseen fold together the ballots section so that it is not visible which choice list the selector is voting on.
(2) Selects that are mannarly led in the municipality put even the ballot in a urn, after it is stamped. Voice of vote sets cross in the man's name by the voter's name.
(3) By outage or communication violations against the crews, the ballot should not be placed in the urn. After the ballot section is stamped, the selector puts this one even in a ballot envelope and glue this again. Voice of the ballot is adding the ballot envelope along with the electoral card in a contingency.
(4) The campaign itself can in very honest cases determine that at some pre-vote receipts should be used the ballot envelope. After the ballot section is stamped, the selector puts this one even in a ballot envelope and glue this again. Voice of the ballot is putting the ballot envelope along with the electoral card in a rematch of the election.
(5) When voice received from select who are manmade in a different municipality, the ballot should not be placed in the urn. After the ballot section is stamped, the selector puts this one even in a ballot envelope and glue this again. Voice of the ballot is putting the ballot envelope along with the electoral card in a rematch of the election. The impact of the city of the municipality is to be sent by the municipality of the municipality.
(6) Selects that are unknown to voice receipts shall be legitimized. Velger's identity can by voting institution in institution instead confirmed by an employee who legitimizes.
(7) Stempel used by the prevoting shall separate from the stamp used on the election thing. It should not progress by the piston in which the municipality's voice is passed.
(8) Selects that have the need for it, can even ask voice-taker to get help at the voting. Selects with severe mental health or physical disability can even point out an additional helper among the people who are present in the electoral venue. Voice receipts should make the helper aware that the person is sworn to secrecy after Section 15-4 (2).
(9) Selection urns used at pre-voting domestic should be sealed.
0 Modified by laws 15 apr 2005 # 18, 11 May 2007 # 16, 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 13 May 2011 ifg res. 13 May 2011 # 494). 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506).
SECTION 8-5. Eleccitation and
(1) Election tation is not permitted in that room where the prevoting is going on.
(2) The Uuser must not gain knowledge of the consumption of the various constituting ballots.
SECTION 8-6. Prescription

The Ministry can provide regulation on the completion of the pre-voting process.

0 Modified by law 11 May 2007 # 16.

Chapter 9. The timing of choice. Voice voting on the election thing

SECTION 9-1. Timing of the choices
(1) Elections of the Parliament of Parliament shall be held in all counties on one and the same day in September month of the last year of each period period.
(2) Elections of the delegates to the county of the county and the municipal government shall be held in all municipashments on one and the same day in September of the month every four years. The elections are held in the second year of each period period.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 9-2. Fastsetting of election day
(1) The king determines before each election election day to a Monday.
(2) The Communist council can even pass that at one or more places in the municipality shall be held also Sunday before the official election day. The betting must be met at the same time with the budget for the year the election is to be held.
0 Changed by laws 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497, for the post-election election in 2009, had to be acknowledged by other clause of the two-day election be authored at the latest 1 June 2009), 17 June 2016 No. 59.
SECTION 9-3. Time and place for the voting. Organisation
(1) The City Council, or the electoral board of delegation, determines how many voice returns the municipality is to be divided into. Central food authority is to be briefed on changes to the voting department within 31. March of the election year.
(2) The Election Board determines where the voting is to take place and determines the time of voting. The voting is to be done in suitable and accessible local. Voters should be able to take their way into the polling stations without help. Other premises should not be used with less-straight reasons of the present. The city council can even, with the deduction from at least 1/3 of its members, pass the polling stations open longer than the election board has adopted. Such ordinance must be met at the same time with the budget for the year the election is to be held. Voice voting Monday must not be scheduled later than at the time 21.
(3) The Election Board announces time and place of the voting.
(4) Candidate listed on choice list by the municipal elections may not be appointed to voice-taker or electoral officials in the polling stations of the municipality. Candidate listed on the list of choice at the stoking election or the county's election, cannot be appointed to the ballot or electoral facility in the polling stations of the counties of the county.
0 Changed by laws 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497), 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 1 jan 2012), 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 19 June 2015 # 71.
SECTION 9-4. Moderates
(1) In the election venue and in the rooms that the selector must pass to come forward to the electoral venue, it is not permitted to drive electoral action or to conduct actions that may interfere or prevent a normal review of the election action. It is not permitted for unauthorized persons to bring control of who meets forward and empower, or to conduct voter examinations or similar to the poll of voters.
(2) The Uuser must not gain knowledge of the consumption of the various constituting ballots.
(3) The voting manager or deputy leader may if necessary abdutes the act of acting in violation of the rules of this paragrafen.
SECTION 9-5. Voice voting in the election venue
(1) When the electoral court opens, voters who are admitted in the male figures of the municipality are granted admission to the vote after each of which they face forward.
(2) The voting board puts an intersection in the man's name by the voter's name. Selects that are unknown to voice-taker should be legitimized.
(3) The saleswoman shall in private and unseen fold together the ballots so that it is not visible which choice selector the selector is voting on. The voter delivers the ballots for the voting board, which stamped it with an official stamp. The saleswoman puts even the ballots down in an urn.
(4) Vectors who are not introduced in the person's part of the crew shall not lay the ballot in the urn. After the ballot section has been stamped, the selector should put it in a ballot envelope and give this to the voting board. The Voice Board puts the ballot envelope in a rematch, kleber it again and carries out the voter's name, the residence address and date of birth.
(5) Selects that have a need for it, even ask the voting board to obtain necessary assistance on voting. Selects with severe mental health or physical disability can even point out an additional helper among the people who are present in the electoral venue. The voting board should make the helper aware that the person is sworn to secrecy.
(6) Selection urns used by the voting on election day should be sealed.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 jan 2004 ifg. res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 15 apr 2005 # 18, 11 May 2007 # 16, 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 13 May 2011 ifg res. 13 May 2011 # 494).
Section 9-5 a. Electronic cancellation in the man's number on Election Day
(1) The Communists can even attach to applying an arrangement with electronic cancellation in the male number. Section 9-5 fourth joints do not apply at the time.
(2) If applied electronic cancellation after the first clause, the voting board should cross off in the electronic man's number both for voters who are male-led in the person circuit, and for voters who are male-led in other circles in the municipality.
(3) By use of electronic cancellation, voters who are not introduced in the manhood of the circuit are avaliable, delivering the ballots to the voting board, which stamped it with official stamp of stamp. The saleswoman puts even the ballots down in an urn. Voting ballots from voters who are male-male-led in the other circuit than where the votes are handed down should be counted in the circuit vote is handed down.
(4) By outage or communication violations against the male figures in a municipality where electronic plywood is applied, later released ballots should not be placed in the urn. Such ballots should be treated as the hot-spare vote. After the ballot section is stamped, the selector should put it in a ballot envelope and paste the envelope again. The vote of the vote is to put the ballot envelope in a contingency's office, together with the electoral card. In municipasts with two-day elections, any hot-day votes received on Sunday are processed and crossed by in the electronic crew before the polls open on Monday.
0 Added by law 17 June 2016 # 62.
SECTION 9-6. Voice voting outside the election venue

Is the selector not able to move into the election venue, the person can cast a vote for two voting engine takers immediately outside the election venue.

SECTION 9-7. The shutdown of the voting

The Steakroom is closing at the time that has been set. The electers who then have met at the polling venue are going to get a vote.

0 Modified by law 15 apr 2005 # 18.
SECTION 9-8. Retention and transport of electoral materials

All electoral materials should be retained and transported in reassuring fashion.

SECTION 9. Offentligation of election results and forecasts

Selection results and forecasts made on the basis of investigations made the day or the days of the election are going to be not released until the earliest at the earliest. 21 on Election Day Monday.

0 Modified by law 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497).
SECTION 9-10. Prescription

The Ministry can provide regulation on the organizing and the completion of the voting on the electoral council, and about retention and transportation of electoral materials.

Chapter 10. Trial of voting and ballots, count, protocol, and protocol, and

SECTION 10-1. The campaign's approval of pre-voting bill passed in the ballot envelope
(1) A prevoting plan shall be approved if
a) The picker is introduced in the man's number in the municipality,
b) The voting contains sufficient information to determine who the selector is,
c) The voting is given to the right time,
d) The voting is delivered to the right voice of the vote unless it is handed down as the lettervoice,
e) The rematch has not been opened or attempted opened,
f) The selector has not yet passed approved voting and
g) The voting has been entered to the electoral board by the time of the 17 the day after Election Day.
(2) The Velocity's voting is approved when the person is crossed off in the mannage.
(3) The pre-voting voting shall be approved before Election Day in the extent possible.
0 Changed by laws 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497), 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506), 17 June 2016 # 62.
Section 10-1 a. Voice of vote approval of prevoting as laid in urne
(1) A voting time passed in advance according to Section 8-4 other clause should be approved if
a) The picker is introduced in the man's number in the municipality,
b) The selector has been given the opportunity to cast a vote, and
c) The picker has not already passed approved voting.
(2) The Velocity's voting is approved when the person is crossed off in the mannage.
0 Added by law 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506).
SECTION 10-2. Approving of voting voicing on the election thing
(1) A voting time passed on the election council shall be approved if
a) The picker is introduced in the man's number in the municipality,
b) The selector has been given the opportunity to cast a vote, and
c) The picker has not already passed approved voting.
(2) The Velocity's voting is approved when the person is crossed off in the mannage.
SECTION 10-3. Approvals of ballots
(1) A ballot shall be approved if
a) it has public stamp,
b) it is set forth what the selection of the ballots applies,
c) it is set forth which party or group of the selector has voted on, and
d) The party or group is setting the list in the constituor. Voting note calculated on a different constituting can only be approved if it applies to a registered political party.
(2) A given ballot is considered to be enslyding with the official drop-down list.
(3) If the selector has taken advantage of a printed ballot that is not enslayended with the official drop-down list, it shall be seen away from any changes made by the selector.
0 Modified by law 24 May 2013 # 20 (ikr. 24 May 2013 ifg res. 24 May 2013 # 506).
SECTION 10-4. Principles for the count of ballots
(1) The Selection Board is responsible for the count of ballots. The recount is made by the people and on the way the electoral board has decided.
(2) Sary badge count of ballots can only be taken if the part or those parts of the crew count applies, contains at least 100 names.
(3) At the county of the county and municipal elections, the ballots should be counted separately. The voting sheets can be counted up at the same time, provided that this does not lead to the delay of the electoral settlement at the county's election.
(4) Steamsheets passed in advance and ballots cast on the electoral council are to be counted separately.
(5) The ballot sheets should be counted in two innings, at a preliminary and a final count.
SECTION 10-5. Tentative Count
(1) Preliminary count of ballots to be launched in advance shall start at the latest four hours before voting has ended at every election premises in the municipality, if this can happen without contrary to the principle of secret elections. In the contrary, it shall start as soon as all pre-voting charges are approved.
(2) Preliminary count of ballots dismissed on the election courthouse should start as soon as possible after voting on the election courthouse has ended.
(3) If the preliminary count of the preliminary count of the election board, electoral voting should be handed down by other voting sites in the municipality than where the selector is mantally led, processed before the preliminary recount starts. Approved ballots among these are to be counted along with the rest of the ballots. The premise is that this can happen without especially delay for the recount.
(4) Steamsheets there are doubts whether can be approved, be placed aside and held outside the recount.
(5) Each list's preliminary voting number exists by counting how many ballots are assigned to each list.
0 Modified by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3).
SECTION 10-6. Final count. Registration of the court notes on the ballots
(1) Final count takes place immediately after the preliminary count has ended and all the votes have been entered to the electoral board. The final recount shall be made under the electoral supervision of the election.
(2) The voting notes from the preliminary recount shall be counted again. The election board determines whether ballots that were not included in the preliminary recount and voting stations that the voting stations have put in particular relegments should be approved. Approved ballots among these are to be counted along with the rest of the ballots.
(3) At the final count of ballots to the municipal election, the electoral board also captures the court's votes of voters made on the ballots. Then, the electoral board shall find the individual listines list numbers. Each ballot counts as many listestms as it should be selected members to the city council. The number is corrected for listless taster to and received from other lists.
(4) At the stoking election and the county's election, the county election boards should be in connection with the electoral settlement registration of the court's voters made on the ballots. Each list's voice numbers exist by counting how many ballots are assigned to each list, coinciding for all the counties of the county.
0 Changed by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3), 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 10-7. Protocol of selection
(1) The voting board shall bring protocol in connection with the completion of the election thing.
(2) The Selection Board shall bring protocol in connection with preparation and review of elections.
(3) The County Board of Directional Board shall bring protocol in connection with the electoral management of the Board of Directional and county elections, as well as the election settlement. Confirmed copy of the county electoral board's protocol should at the orthodontist elections are passed the Parliament and the National Election Board.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 10-8. Submission of materials at the stoking selection and the county's election
(1) At the post-election and county selection, the electoral board shall as soon as possible send the following materials to the county's Board of Directional Board :
a) all approved ballots, sorted on unlaid and resorted, those who have been granted on the election and those who are given in advance each for themselves,
b) all voting and ballots the electoral board has rejected,
c) all election cards from the pre-voting,
d) all of the rematch from pre-voting overseas and on Svalbard and Jan Mayen,
e) confirmed the transcription of what is protocol-related in connection with the election, and
f) copy of the arrival of new complaints.
(2) The Oslo municipality shall submit the material that has been referred to in the first clause of the County of the County, as soon as the election settlement at the stoking election is concluded.
(3) The material shall be packed in good order in defensible sealed packaging, and sent in quick-rest reassuring manner.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 10-9. County electoral control of the stave and county election election
(1) The County Board of Directions shall control the breakthrough selection and county selection in the counties with the basis of the material it will be shipped after Section 10-8. If the county election board is finding fault by the election board's decisions to approve or reject voting bills or ballots, or errors in the election board, the mistakes shall be corrected.
(2) In the Oslo municipality, the control of the stitling selection of the county of the county. If the county man finds fault at the election board's decisions to approve or reject voting bills or ballots, or failure of the election board, the failures of the election are to be recorded. Confirmed copy of the County's Protocol shall be passed the Parliament and the National Election Board.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 10-10. Prescription

The Ministry can provide regulation on trial voting and ballots, about the count of ballots and about the protocol of choice.

Chapter 11. Mandatdispatch and the candidate-year-old

SECTION 11. Selection districts at the short-election election

The country is divided into 19 electoral district. Each county constitutes a electoral district.

0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 11-2. Number of orthodontist officials. District officials and equalization delegates
(1) It shall be selected 169 delegates to the Parliament of Parliament.
(2) Of these, 150 as the district representative and 19 as the equalization representative. It is to be selected an equalization representative from each election district.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 11-3. Prejudice of the mandates of the election districts at the stoking election
(1) All the stoking seats are to be distributed on the electoral districts. The dispatcher is made by the ministry every eight years.
(2) Each election district's settlement figures are determined by that the number of residents in the electoral district at the second-last year-changing before the appropriate stat-up election adtheirs with the number of square kilometers of the electoral district multiplied by 1.8.
(3) Each constituent district's settlement figures with 1-3-5 etc., the quotients as specified, number of consecutive ones. The House of the House is distributed on the electoral districts on the basis of the future of the future of affirmative interest rates. House seat number 1 falls to the electoral district that has the largest quotient. House seat number 2 falls to the electoral district that has the second-largest quotient, etc., if two or more electoral districts have the same quotient, the representative seat of the election district has the highest share count. Have the same settlement figures, it is decided at the lodditreddit which the electoral district is supposed to be captured.
(4) The Ministry undercourses the Parliament on the outcome of the mandate distribution.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 15 apr 2005 # 18.
SECTION 11-4. Prejudice of the district rates between the election lists at the short-election
(1) Of the number of mandates each electoral district shall have according to Section 11-3, all with the exception of one to distribute as the district of the district is. The final mandate is distributed by the impeachment board as the equalization mandate.
(2) The County Board of Directs shall conduct election settlement for the county and distribute the county's district of the county between the lists. The Mandatdispatch is happening according to St. Laguës modified method.
(3) St. Laguen's modified method implies that each list's voice number of 1.4-3-5-7 etc., each voting number should be divided as many times as it is necessary to determine the number of mandates the list is to have. The first mandate falls to the list that has the largest quota. The second mandate falls to the list that has the second-largest quotient, etc., if multiple lists have the same quotient, the mandate of the lists has the largest voting number. Have the same voting numbers, it is decided by the loddittrekening which list the mandate is to be captured.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 11-5. The year-old of candidates for the district of the district of the county.
(1) When it is settled how many district landsates a choice list should have, the benefits of the county election board these to the candidates on the list. Candidates that are not eligible, set out of consideration. The candidate-year-old takes place in the following way : First, they are counted as listed as # 1 on the ballots. The candidate who has the most entries is chosen. Then they are counted names that are listed as # 2 on the ballots. The candidate who has the most entries when posting the results from the first and second count is selected. The recount continues in the same way until all of the representative places the list is supposed to have is possessed. When more candidates same result, the original order of the list is crucial.
(2) Each list should barely be allocated as many commodity presenties as it gets representative, with the addition of three. The candidates of the commodity space presentplaces are distributed in the same way as the representative of the first clause.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 11-6. The judice of the equalization mandates on the parties and election districts at the short-election election
(1) The National Board of Directions shall conduct the electoral settlement of the distribution of the equalization mandates on the basis of the printed output that has been submitted from the county's electoral boards.
(2) The National Election Board benefits the equalization of the parties in accordance with the Constitution of the Constitution Section 59. If more parties have the same quotient, the mandate of the party has the party that has the largest voting number. Have the same voting numbers, it will be settled by the lol draw on which the party of the mandate is to be captured.
(3) The National Election Board benefits the party's equalization seats with one on each county, in the following manner :
a) For each county and for each party that has won at least one equalization mandate, the starting point of the party's vocal numbers in the county. Has the party not received any district of the district, the party's voting number in the county is added to the ground. Has the party received the district of the district, the party's voice number of its dividend numbers with a number that is one more than double the number of the district of the district of the county has been given in the county. The party's vocal numbers or the future of the future of the average number of affirmative votes per district that in the person County.
b) The future of the future quotas for all counties and for all batches that have won at least one equalization mandate, fixed by size. Are several quotients as large, the number of votes in the person is filling crucial. In the event of voting, the order of the ballot is the order of the lottery.
c) The equalization mandate 1 is assigned to the party and the county that after the calculation ahead has the largest quota. The equalization mandate 2 is assigned to the party and the county that has the second-largest quotient etc.
d) Once a county has been awarded an equalization mandate, it does not come into consideration by the further calculations. When a party has received the number of equalization seats it should have in accordance with the dispatch after other clause, the party does not come into consideration by the further calculations. The judice continues for the rest counties and the rest parties until all the equalization seats are distributed.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 15 apr 2005 # 18.
SECTION 11-7. The year-old of candidates for the equalization seats at the short-election election

When it is decided which party lists are given equalization seats, the impeachment board shall designate the listines of the equalization and all of the commodity presentties. At this settlement, one away from those who have already been selected as the district representative and the cuts the candidates in still order according to Section 11-5. Candidates that are not eligible, set out of consideration.

SECTION 11-8. Completes to the selected statcard representative
(1) The National Election Board of the National Committee of the All-Selected Board of Directs and varareretaunties. The full powers are sent to the Parliament.
(2) The National Board of Directors shall protocol the result of the electoral settlement and inform the Parliament and the county electoral boards about this.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 11-9. Underdirection of the selected statcard representative
(1) After receiving message from the National Election Board of Directions, the Board of Directions shall inform the elected representative and the commodity presentes of the election and enlighten the court to apply for exemption from elections.
(2) Is a candidate been elected to the representative or commodity representative from several counties, the person determines even what choice is received. Written statement of what election to be received shall be sent the county election manager within three days after the subdirection of the election has been received from the county's election boards. Doesn't the person subdirection as mentioned, the election is considered to be received in the county where the person is vocal, or-if the person is not vocal in any of the counties-the county that comes first in alphabetical order. If the choice has been received known invalid, the person may be able to make a new statement.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 11-10. Mandatdispatch and candidate-year-old at the county's election
(1) The County Board of Directional Board shall conduct the election settlement at the county's election. The Mandatdispatch is happening according to St. Laguës modified method after Section 11-4.
(2) When it is determined how many mandates a choice list should have, the benefits of the county's representative seats of the candidates on the list. Candidates that are not eligible to be set out of consideration. Candidates on the list that have achieved a personal vote count of at least eight percent of the list's vocal numbers, the horres in order after the number of received personal votes. Previous candidates horres on the basis of their order on the list.
(3) Each list is to barely be allocated as many commodity presenties as it gets representative, with the addition of three. The candidates of the commodity space presentplaces are distributed in the same way as the representative of the other clause.
(4) If a selection list gets more seats than there are eligible candidates in the list, the excess number of mandates between the rest lists according to the rule in the first clause.
0 Modified by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3).
SECTION 11-11. Underdirection of the selected county representation representative

The County Board of Directs shall inform the selected representative and commodity presenties about the election.

0 Modified by law 17 June 2016 # 62.
SECTION 11-12. Mandatdispatch and candidate-year-old at city council elections
(1) The Election Board shall conduct election settlement at municipal elections. The listener number shall be added due to the mandate distribution that occurs according to St. Laguës modified method after Section 11-4.
(2) When it is determined how many seats a choice list should have, the electoral board benefits the representative seats of the candidates on the list. Candidates that are not eligible, set out of consideration. Candidates who have been set up with highlighted writing are given the ballot as they claim according to Section 6-2 third joints, before the personal votes voters have given to the candidates are counted. Then the horniest candidates in order after the number of received personal votes. Have more candidates received as many votes, or no votes, is the order of the list crucial.
(3) Each list is to barely be allocated as many commodity presenties as it gets representative, with the addition of three. The candidates of the commodity space presentplaces are distributed in the same way as the representative of the other clause.
(4) If a selection list gets more seats than there are eligible candidates in the list, the excess number of mandates between the rest lists according to the rule in the first clause.
0 Modified by law 10 jan 2003 # 4 (ikr. 1 Feb 2003 ifg. res. 10 jan 2003 # 3).
SECTION 11-13 Underdirection of the elected Municipal Council of the

The ElecBoard shall inform the selected representative and commodity presenties about the election.

0 Modified by law 17 June 2016 # 62.

Chapter 12. Multi-century election at municipal elections

SECTION 12-1. The terms of the majority election
(1) The Communist election is held as a majority election if it in a municipality has not been more than one approved list proposal.
(2) The Election Board announces that the election is held as a majority election and inform on what rules apply to the election.
SECTION 12-2. Techniques of multicentury elections
(1) Voters match the same ballot on representative and commodity presenters.
(2) The ballot section may contain at least as many names as it should be selected in the city council, and as many varspace presenties.
SECTION 12-3. Election showdown at the majority election
(1) At the election settlement, first they are counted that are given on representative. Is it on the ballot section not divorced between representative and commodity presenties, they are first listed as representative of the permitted number, and the following as commodity presenties in the permitted number. Contains the ballot section several names as representative or commodity presenties than permitted, the excess names that stand last in the order of consideration.
(2) A name can only be taken up once on each ballot.
(3) Those who get the most votes are selected.
(4) Those who receive the most votes when representative votes and vararet votes are counted under one, are selected to commodity presentes in the order of the voting show and in a number of responding to the representative.
(5) If more candidates get as many votes, the outcome is decided by lodditreddit.

Chapter 13 Trial of the election's validity. Commaking

SECTION 13-1. Commaking at the test selection
(1) Anyone who has the suffrage can complain about relationships in the context of the preparation and the completion of the top-line election in the county that they are mansled. Regarding the complaint of voting rights or if the adhall to cast a vote, also has the one that has not been male-led, clasone.
(2) The Kmaking must be made within seven days after Election Day. Kmaking over the county election board's election settlement must be made within seven days after the election settlement has been issued.
(3) The complaint shall be in writing and shall be presented to the Board of Directs, the County Board of the county, the county of the county, or the Ministry of Parliament or the Parliament.
(4) The parliament is the clavitally for complaints that apply to the voting rights and the right to cast a vote. The National Election Board shall make a statement to the Parliament on the complaints of the complaint. The National Election Board is the clashend of the rest complaints. The National Committee of the National Committee shall overpass its ordinance in the complaints of the Parliament.
0 Modified by laws 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715), 15 apr 2005 # 18.
SECTION 13-2. Kmaking at the county's election and municipal elections
(1) Anyone who has the suffrage can complain about conditions in connection with the preparation and the completion of the county election in the county that they are male-led, and by the municipal elections in the municipality of the municipality is mansled. Regarding the complaint of voting rights or if the adhall to cast a vote, also has the one that has not been male-led, clasone.
(2) The Kmaking must be made within seven days after Election Day. Competing over the election settlement must be made within seven days after the election settlement has been approved in the county council or city council.
(3) The complaint shall be in writing and shall be presented to the Board of Directional Board of the municipality of Municipal Elect and for the County Board of Directional Board of the County Board of Directional elections. Regarding the complaint ratio of significance for both elections, it is deemed to apply both and can be conveyed either to the Select Board or the County Board of Direcholders.
(4) The Ministry of the Ministry is the cl. The Ministry shall know the county election in a municipality or throughout the county or municipal elections in a municipality void if committed failures believed to have had influence on the distribution of the mandates between the lists and as it is not possible to correct. The Ministry of the Ministry of the complaint cases after this paragraph is final and cannot be brought in for the courts.
0 Modified by law 15 apr 2005 # 18.
SECTION 13-3. Control of the top choice. Bad Selection-Selection
(1) The newly elected Parliament of Parliament is hitting the ordinance of the top election is valid.
(2) The parliament shall ensure that errors are fixed in the extent possible.
(3) The parliament shall know the orthodontist elections in a municipality or in a county void if committed failures believed to have had influence on the outcome of the election, and as it is not possible to correct.
(4) When the election in a municipality or in a county is known invalid, the Parliament commands reelection. The parliament can in the very honest cases on city elections throughout the county even if the failure does not apply to all the counties of the county.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 13-4. Control of county elections and municipal elections. Bad Selection-Selection
(1) The newly-elected county council is hitting the ordinance of the county's election is valid. The newly elected city council is hitting the ordinance of the municipal elections is valid.
(2) The county of the county shall know the county election in a municipality or in the entire county invalid if committed failures believed to have had influence on the distribution of the mandates between the lists and as it is not possible to correct.
(3) The Communist Council shall know the municipality of the municipality if there are committed errors believed to have had influence on the distribution of the mandates between the lists and as it is not possible to correct.
(4) If the county council or city council recognizes an election, it shall be sent to the ministry, which commands reelection. At county elections, the ministry can in the very honest cases on city elections throughout the county, although the failure does not apply to all the counties of the county.
(5) The provisions of the Municipal Law Section 59 on the Law Control of Law shall apply accordingly. The deadline for inputting the motion for the Law Control is still seven days after the county council or city council has hit the ordinance after the first clause.
SECTION 13-5. The review of the election
(1) By reselecting the male number from the original election. The crew is to be updated and incorrect corrected.
(2) If it is necessary for consideration of an appropriate review of the election, the ministry can make exceptions from the provisions of this law.

Chapter 14 New election settlement in the period. Supplies selection

SECTION 14-1. New election settlement to Parliament Parliament
(1) The County Board of Directional Board shall, following the injunction of Parliament, conduct new election settlement if a representative seat in Parliament's Parliament will remain unseated.
(2) County Board of Directs of the County Board of Directs of the Selected to Representative or Commodity Representative after the first clause. In full power, what number in the order in which the selected representative is to have. For the commodity representative, specify which or what representative is to replace, and the number of the commodity present draft. The full power is passed to the Parliament of Parliament. By the way, Section 11-9 equivalent.
0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 14-2. New election settlement and supplement selection to the county council or city council
(1) The county mayor or mayor shall ensure that the County Board of Directional Board or the Board of Directboard will be resettling election settlement if a representative seat of the county council or city council will remain standing unseated.
(2) It is also supposed to be retaken election settlement when a commodity space presenter has become vacant, if the county mayor or mayor finds this necessary.
(3) Is the quantity of commodity presenties or by a team's commodity presenties become insufficient, and the relationship cannot be helped by new election settlement after other clause, the person group itself may designate the person to advance on the free the commodity space. The group undercourses the county's board of directors or the electoral board, which selects the person as the commodity representative if the electoral terms are met.
(4) Are the municipal elections held as the majority of elections, the candidate's candidate for the vacant seat of the city council. Third clause other period applies to the equivalent.
(5) For the Other Section, Section 11 and 11-13 equivalent.

Chapter 15. Different provisions

SECTION 15 -1. Attempts
(1) The king may after application grant consent to :
a) attempts where elections after this law are carried out in other ways than what follows by this law, and
b) attempt by direct choice of other elected organs than them this law applies.
(2) The King establishes closer terms for the attempt and determines the herunder what the legislates can be made from.
SECTION 15 -2. Retention, availing and the destruction of electoral material

Retention, deflation and the destruction of electoral materials after the election is over, shall occur in accordance with the filing of regulations and regulation given in the co-hold of this.

SECTION 15 -3. Access to the man number and the rest of the material-public
(1) If nothing else follows of provisions of this law or in regulation, access to or unwritten by male figures can be accessed, herding what has been used for cross-crossing, only given or issued
a) of public employees when it is necessary for consideration of the service, or
b) to researchers in scientific eye with when there is consent from the People's Science authority.
(2) Access to the other electoral material can only be given to researchers in scientific eye-eye and by consent of the person's authority.
SECTION 15 -4. Taushei-liked
(1) The equivalence of the provisions of the disclosure of secrecy relates to the equivalent of selection.
(2) A person who is assisting a selector by the voting and gets knowledge of how the person has voted, is sworn to secrecy about this.
SECTION 15 -5. Calculation of deadlines. Over-
(1) If a date that is initially for a due date falls on a Saturday or holiday, the deadline begins to run closest to subsequent weekday.
(2) If a date for the shutdown of a deadline falls on a Saturday or a holiday, the deadline runs out the closest to subsequent weekday.
(3) The provisions of first and other clauses apply to the equivalent in those cases where a date that is the earliest or recent time of any action after this law falls on a Saturday or a holiday.
(4) Message, statement, or complaint that is given after the expiration of the deadline after this law can only be taken to treatment if the deadline is due to conditions the obligation to comply with the deadline, neither had dominion over and nor could predict.
0 Changed by laws 17 June 2005 # 90 (ikr. 1 jan 2008 ifg res. 26 jan 2007 # 88) that changed by law 26 jan 2007 # 3, 13 May 2011 # 14 (ikr. 13 May 2011 ifg res. 13 May 2011 # 494).
SECTION 15 -6. Illumination alike

All public employees duties as far as it is possible to give election authorities the information they had to demand for use at preparation and review of elections.

SECTION 15-7. Tasks for election statistics

The county electoral boards and electoral boards duties to provide the tasks that the ministry or Statistical Central Bureau finds are necessary to publish election results or draft official election statistics.

SECTION 15 -8. Communicial that constitutes a separate county
(1) This law regulations on the county of the county elections do not apply in those cases where a municipality constitutes a separate county and where it is therefore not being deheld county elections.
(2) It also shall also in these municipalities be allowed to cast prevote to the county's vote for voters who have the voting rights in a municipality that make up part of another county.
SECTION 15 -9. Expenses covered by the treasury

The Statbox covers expenses for the counties and the county of the county and the county's legislation on the state of the council.

0 Modified by law 20 June 2003 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2003 ifg res. 20 June 2003 # 715).
SECTION 15 -10 Election
(1) The Ministry can accreditation national and international electoral observers from institutions or organizations to observe the completion of elections to the Parliament or Elect of the Municipal Council and the county of the county.
(2) The Communists have the obligation to accept accredited electoral observers and facilitation for election observation.
0 Added by law 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497).
SECTION 15 -11. Overcharge Fee
(1) By intentional or negligent violation of the electoral law Section 9-9, the Media Protection Agency may be a violation fee of up to 28 times the base amount in the census. With enterprises, here company, contemporary enterprises, association or other convergence, single-person enterprises, foundation, living or public business.
(2) Upon the measurement of the fee, it shall be especially placed on weight
a) The violation of the violation,
b) about the enterprise by guidelines, instruction, training, control or other measures could have the prevention of the violation,
c) whether the violation has been committed to promoting the interests of the company,
d) whether the enterprise has had or could have achieved any benefit at the violation,
e) of the present iteration, and
f) The enterprise's economic ability.
(3) The effective fee shall receive the treasury and are compulset basis for the outlay.
(4) The King cannot provide the Media Protection or the complaint Board General instruction on the handling of the determination and also cannot give the injunction on the authority of the government exercise in individual cases or reunification.
(5) Attached for the ilset violation fee can be incurred to an independent complaint of the King. Nemnda is going to have three members. The king determines who is to be the Board of the Board.
(6) The Board of the KolaenBoard cannot be reusing the Regulatory Organization by its own measures.
(7) The Ministry can in regulation give closer rules about the completion of the provisions of this paragraph, herders about the acquisition and the Assembly of the complaint of the Board of the Board of the Board of the Fee.
0 Added by law 8 May 2009 # 26 (ikr. 8 May 2009 ifg res. 8 May 2009 # 497).

Chapter 16 Iforce wooden parts and transition rules. Changes in other laws

SECTION 16-1. Istrontrecation
(1) The law applies from the time the King decides. 1
(2) From the same time repeait law 1. March 1985 # 3 about stoking elections, county elections, and municipal elections (election law) with the exception of Section 83. 2
1 From 1 sep 2002 ifg. res. 28 June 2002 # 646.
2 Section 83 was lifted by law 20 June 2003 # 45, II.
SECTION 16-2 Overtime rules
(1) Section 5-2 different clause letter d 1 does not apply to batches that were registered after Section 17 of law 1. March 1985 # 3. If these apply for registration in the Partition Register within 2. January 2005. Partier who have not filed for registration within this deadline loses the energy of the party name after the post-card selection in 2005.
(2) To be able to ask list suggestions under the name the party was registered with after Section 17 of law 1. March 1985 # 3. The party must be registered in the Partition Registry.
1 The Lovens cap. 5 has been repealifted by law 17 June 2005 # 102.
SECTION 16-3. Changes in other laws

From the time the law here takes effect, the following changes are made in law 25. September 1992 # 107 about municipaticism and county police are (the municipal law) :--