What is Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll.?

Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll., on the Choice of the Constitutional National Assembly — Law on the Choice of the Constitutional National Assembly.

When it became Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll. effectiveness?

Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll. became effective 18.04.1946.

Is Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll. still valid?

Yes, Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll. is still valid and effective.

Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll. - Law on the Choice of the Constitutional...

67.

Law

of 11 April 1946

on the choice of the constituent National Assembly.

The Provisional National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:

HLAVA PRVNÍ.

General provisions.

Část I.

Election regions.

§ 1.

A total of 28 electoral counties are formed for elections to the constituent National Assembly. They are specified in the Annex to this Act. Administrative counties in individual electoral counties are the administrative counties according to the status of the election on the day of the election.

Část II.

Determination of the number of Members elected in the countries.

§ 2.

(1) The number of Members to be elected in the Czech, Moravian-Silesian and Slovak countries shall be determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraphs 3 to 5 by the Central Election Committee (§ 4, paragraph 1), convened for that purpose by the Minister for the Interior.

(2) The local national committee shall submit on 7 May 1946 by 12 noon a written report on the number of all voters registered on that date in the permanent electoral lists underlying the election, together with a certified copy of those lists to the superior national committee. As far as cities are concerned, these reports and copies of electoral lists shall be submitted by local national committees in these cities to the regional national committee and, as regards the cities of Bratislava and Košice, by local national committees in these cities entrusted to the interior. The District National Committee shall, after examination, provide an overview of the number of all persons registered in the electoral lists in its administrative district by municipality and shall submit the regional summary to the provincial national committee (mandated by the national authority) in duplicate no later than 10 May 1946. The Regional National Committee (entrustment of the Interior) shall provide an overview of the number of persons enrolled in the electoral lists on 7 May 1946 in its administrative district, supported by the county summaries (reports of the cities and cities of Bratislava and Košice), no later than 12 May 1946, by 12 May 1946, to the Ministry of Interior. After reviewing all these reports, the Ministry of the Interior shall provide an overview of the number of persons registered in the electoral lists on 7 May 1946 on the territory of the whole state.

(3) The President of the Central Election Committee shall report on whether, in accordance with paragraph 2, the procedure has been properly followed and whether the outcome needs to be corrected because of the error in the calculations. The Central Electoral Committee shall, after reviewing the summaries and reports referred to in paragraph 2, establish the total number of persons registered in the electoral lists on 7 May 1946 on the territory of the whole state and in particular in the Czech, Moravian-Silesian and Slovak countries. In addition, the total number of persons on electoral lists on the national territory will be divided by the number of Members elected (300). The whole number by dividing it without a fraction is a state mandate number.

(4) In each of the countries, as many Members as the national mandate number is included in the total of all persons registered in the electoral lists in the country concerned shall be elected. If not all the mandates have been allocated in this way, the Central Electoral Committee shall give the remaining mandate according to the greater remainder of the division. If the remainder of the division is equal to itself, the lot shall decide.

(5) The number of Members, according to the previous paragraphs, on each country, shall be declared by the Minister of Interior without delay in the Official Journal of the Republic of Czechoslovakia.

Část III.

Election posts and electoral authorities.

§ 3.

Election point.

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, each municipality shall be an electorate.

(2) The Minister of the Interior (delegate of the Interior) may order municipalities with less than 50 voters on permanent electoral lists to the nearest larger municipality as an election post.

(3) The voters registered in each of the component electoral lists are given one voting room. The local national committee shall designate one or more voting rooms in which the voting rights of a person with an electoral pass (Section 15 of the Law of 21 February 1946, No. 28 Coll., on the modification of permanent electoral lists), together with other citizens.

Election committees.

§ 4.

(1) Electoral committees are called for the implementation of the elections, namely the Regional Electoral Committees, the Regional Electoral Committees and the Central Electoral Committee. A district election committee shall be set up for each election room. A Regional Electoral Committee with its registered office in the Annex shall be established for each electoral region (Section 1). A central election committee at the Ministry of Interior in Prague will be set up for the whole country.

(2) A Member of the Election Committee may be a citizen who has the conditions of voting rights, who is not excluded from the right to vote or affected by an obstacle to the exercise of the right to vote (§ 7), even if he did not reside in the municipality in which the Election Committee is established. Candidates shall not be members of election committees. The same citizen may be a member of two or more committees.

(3) The members and alternates of the Circular and Regional Election Committees shall place in the hands of the Supervisory Body (§ 41 (1)), or its representative, authorised to do so, and the members and alternates of the Central Election Committee in the hands of the Minister of the Interior, a vow of their honour and conscience to do their duties in a conscientious and impartial manner and to observe laws and other rules. Reservations or additions to the promise shall be deemed to be denied and shall be deemed to refuse to accept appointment.

(4) If a member of the Election Committee refuses to accept an appointment, if he renounces his membership of the Election Committee, if the circumstances for which he could not have been originally appointed become apparent or if he does not exercise his office, an additional appointment shall be made without delay. The provisions of the previous sentence shall apply mutatis mutandis to alternates.

(5) The District and Regional Elections Committee may, in force, be held by more than half of its members by an absolute majority. The President shall have the right to vote. In the event of a tie, the application shall be deemed rejected. These principles also apply to the resolution of the Central Election Committee, but with the derogation that at least nine members are needed and that the President (Vice-President) votes only if the number of votes is equal.

(6) The Election Committee shall act definitively. It shall be recorded in a duplicate, signed by all the parties present. The minutes shall be drawn up by a member of the Committee responsible for this task under this Act or under the measures of the Chairman of the Committee.

§ 5.

(1) Two representatives of each political party who has submitted a valid candidate list in the region concerned are members of the Regional Electoral Committee. Two representatives of each political party operating in the country concerned are members of the Regional Election Committee (§ 14 (1)). The members of the Central Election Committee are two representatives of each political party operating in the Czech, Moravian-Silesian or Slovak countries (§ 14, paragraph 1). Each member of the Election Committee shall have an alternate.

(2) The two members of the Circular Election Committee and their alternates are appointed by the Election Party Agent (§ 14, par. 2, par. 3), or by his representative, for the administrative district designated and supervised by him, and shall report at least 14 days before the election date to the Supervisory Body. The two members of the Regional Electoral Committee and their alternates shall be appointed by the Bureau of the Political Party and shall report at least 26 days before the date of the election to the Ministry of the Interior and the President of the District National Committee, in whose district the seat of the Regional Electoral Committee is situated. The members and alternates of the Central Committee shall be appointed by the Minister for the Interior, to whom the Bureau of one of the political parties shall nominate, no later than the 26th day before the date of election, four noon members and four alternates; as regards parties active in Slovakia, this is done through an internal delegate, to whom the proposals will be submitted no later than the 27th day before the date of election by 12 noon.

(3) A member of the Regional Election Committee, with a vote of the Advisory Committee and at the same time a recorder, where possible, is an official of the Office of the Local National Committee designated by the Chairman of that National Committee. A member of the Regional Election Committee with an advisory voice and at the same time the minutes shall be a conceptual official of the Regional National Committee, appointed by its chairman, in whose area the seat of the Regional Election Committee is situated. A conceptual official of the Ministry of the Interior designated by the Minister shall be a member of the Central Election Committee with an advisory vote.

(4) The Circular Election Committee shall elect its oldest member as chairmen before the election takes place by a pro-majority majority; in the event of a tie, the ticket shall decide. The President and Vice-President may not belong to the same party, unless a single party has submitted a candidate list in the electoral district. According to the same principles, a Regional Electoral Committee shall be set up, the members of which shall be convened by the Chairman of the District National Committee (paragraph 2). The President of the Central Election Committee shall be the Minister of the Interior and Vice-President of the Internal Envoy who may be represented by an official of his office.

(5) The President of the State Office of Statistics in Prague and the Home Secretary will provide the President of the Central Election Committee with the necessary number of statistical service officials. The President of the Central Election Committee shall order them to the Central Election Committee and the Regional Election Committees as auxiliary bodies.

§ 6.

Confidential.

(1) On the basis of a proposal from each party which has submitted a valid candidate list in the electoral district concerned, the Circuit Election Committee must admit two voters authorised by the local authorities and, if not, by the regional organisation parties to the confidentiality. The proposal must be made orally or in writing to the President of the Election Committee before the election begins.

(2) Confidentials shall have the right to be present at the full electoral act until the result of the census is declared; However, they may only intervene within the limits of § 26.

Část IV.

The right to vote and to vote.

§ 7.

The right to vote.

(1) The right to vote for a member of the constituent National Assembly is reserved for all persons who fulfil the conditions for inclusion in permanent electoral lists pursuant to § 2, paragraph 1 of Act No. 28 / 1946 Coll. Entry into these lists is a condition for the exercise of voting rights.

(2) Voters are excluded from the right to vote who are excluded from or not entered in the permanent list of voters (§ § 3 and 25, § 22 Act No. 28 / 1946 Coll.).

(3) Voting rights may not be exercised by those whose entry in the electoral list is marked by an obstacle to the exercise of voting rights (§ 24 of Act No. 28 / 1946 Coll.).

§ 8.

Voting right.

Each voter only has one vote. He has the right to vote in a single municipality and carries it out in person.

§ 9.

Voter ID.

The Volich card only authorises the election in the village marked on it. Military members and members of the National Security Corps with an electoral licence may also vote in one municipality, as a rule in the municipality where they are ordered to serve on the day of the election.

§ 10.

Optional.

National citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic of the Czech Republic, Slovak or other Slavic nationality may be elected for Members, regardless of gender, who have completed their 21st year of age on the day of the election and are not excluded from the right to vote under Paragraph 7 (2).

§ 11.

Vote duty.

(1) Each voter is obliged to participate.

(2) Those who:

(a) are over 70 years of age; or

(b) for a disease or a defect in the body, they may not enter the election room; or

(c) for the urgent duties of their office or profession, they may not come to a choice in time; or

(d) are at least 100 km from the choice point on the day of the choice; or

(e) are delayed by interruption of traffic or other insurmountable obstacles.

(3) The employer shall adjust the service on the day of the choice so that the staff members can participate in the election.

(4) Also, the military service may be adjusted for the day of election so that, if the conditions of service so permit, military persons who do not have an electoral licence may exercise their right outside the post of service. This applies mutatis mutandis to the service of members of the National Security Corps.

HLAVA DRUHÁ.

Preparatory electoral procedure.

§ 12.

An election.

(1) The Minister of the Interior shall issue the election no later than the 28th day before the date of the election by decree in the Official Journal of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. The decree must contain the date of the election, the date on which the electoral lists are unloaded, the time limit and the place to submit the candidate lists and the invitation to the election parties to propose representatives to the election committees within the relevant deadlines. It must also include the day, hour and place where and where the meetings of the Regional Election Committees and the Central Election Committee are held.

(2) The publication of an election shall also be made known in each municipality and in all its local parts by public notices for 15 days, as well as by other means in the usual place. Statements shall include, in addition to the information referred to in the second sentence of the preceding paragraph, the number of district election committees in the ballot box, the place of the office of the President of the Regional Election Committee, the time and place where the electoral lists may be consulted and the provisions on the form and content of the candidate documents.

§ 13.

Additional unloading of electoral lists.

(1) Standing lists of voters, which are the basis for the vote, are to be unloaded for 10 days until the date of election for public consultation.

(2) The provisions of § 8, paragraph 1, the sentences of the second and third sentences of Act No. 28 / 1946 Coll.

§ 14.

Candidate papers.

(1) Only political parties operating in the country concerned on 30 April 1946 may submit candidate lists for election to the Constitutional National Assembly. The Bureau of the Political Party shall submit them by 12 noon at the latest on the 16th day before the date of election to the Chair of the Regional Election Committee in duplicate. The President shall confirm to the sender the day and time of submission. The Party may submit a further copy of the list of candidates whose agreement to the list submitted shall be endorsed by the Chairman of the Regional Election Committee.

(2) The Candidate List must contain:

1. Party designation;

2. name, surname, employment and residence of candidates. The order of each candidate shall be marked with an Arabic digit;

3. an indication of the party's agent and his two alternates, giving the exact address. No candidates shall be identified as Agents of the Party or its alternates.

(3) The Party may nominate no more than 30 persons in the electoral district.

(4) A written, self-signed declaration by all candidates that they accept the nomination, the nationality to which they claim that they are not proposed, with their consent, on another candidate list or in another electoral region, and that there is no impediment to selectivity (§ 10). However, this declaration is not required if the candidate is outside the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic.

§ 15.

Preparatory procedure with the Regional Election Committee.

(1) Preparations for decision-making by the Regional Election Committee shall be made by its President.

(2) In particular, the President of the Regional Election Committee shall invite the agent to remove, by 12 noon the following day at the latest, the formal defect of the candidate's list, for example if the candidate's list contains more candidates than those laid down in Paragraph 14 (3), if the party's designation or order of candidates is not indicated, if the candidate's consent is not attached, or if the candidate's nationality is not mentioned, or if the candidate's list is not submitted in duplicate.

§ 16.

Decision-making of the Regional Election Committee.

(1) The Regional Election Committee shall meet without invitation on the 16th day before the date of the election at 16: 00 with its President to amend the candidate lists. The Election Committee's deliberations shall end no later than 14 hours after the following day.

(2) The Regional Election Committee shall declare the list of candidates invalid if the party's agent does not, after having called on the President or at its meeting, indicate the party's designation on the list. It shall also declare an invalid political party's candidate list which does not comply with the provisions of Paragraph 14 (1), first and second sentences. If the Regional Election Committee declares the candidate's list invalid, its President shall declare it in the Official Journal of the Czechoslovak Republic.

(3) The Regional Election Committee will strike out the candidate on several candidate lists, on the candidate list, to which no agreement with the candidate meeting the provisions of Paragraph 14 (4) has been attached. It shall also strike out the candidate if the agent fails to submit the candidate's declaration in due time (Paragraph 15), if required under Paragraph 14 (4). If the agent does not reduce the number of candidates corresponding to the provisions of Paragraph 14 (3), the Regional Electoral Committee shall strike down the last superfluous candidates.

§ 17.

Procedure with the Central Election Committee.

(1) The President of the Regional Election Committee shall, immediately after its meeting, send a copy of the candidates' statements and the minutes of the deliberations of the Election Committee to the President of the Central Election Committee. The Central Election Committee shall meet uninvited at 10 a.m. on the 14th day before the election in the Ministry of Interior. The proceedings of the Central Election Committee shall end no later than 14: 00 on the following day. The President shall notify the outcome of the proceedings to the regional election committees and parties concerned.

(2) The Central Election Committee will first be satisfied that the Regional Election Committees have removed all formal defects in the candidate lists (§ 16), and will remove the defects found. If one of the candidates is on several candidate lists and no agreement has been reached between the representatives of the interested parties (§ 5, paragraph 1, sentence 3) at the meeting of the Central Election Committee, the President shall tick the candidate so that he remains on only one candidate list.

(3) If several candidates have the same or difficult to identify, the President of the Central Election Committee shall, after the opening of the meeting, invite a representative (§ 5, paragraph 1, third sentence) of these parties to correct them within 24 hours at the latest. If the parties are not assessed in due time, they shall adjust the names of the parties to the Central Electoral Committee.

(4) If the candidate lists, issued probably by a party's desire, are marked by derogation in the various electoral regions, the President shall, after the opening of the meeting, invite its representative to announce within 24 hours the party's uniform designation for all electoral regions. If they do not do so, its designation shall be determined by the Central Election Committee.

(5) The ranking of the candidates will be decided by the ticket; the drawing shall be carried out by a person designated by the Central Election Committee. According to the order thus established, the lists of candidates of all parties shall be provided with the appropriate Arabic order numbers.

§ 18.

Withdrawal.

(1) If the candidate renounces his candidacy and submits a certified signed statement to the President of the Regional Election Committee, but this may happen no later than the fifth day before the election, the President shall declare the appeal of the candidacy to go public.

(2) If the candidacy was withdrawn only after the meeting of the Central Election Committee (§ 17), the name of the candidate remains on the candidate list, but shall not be taken into account when ordering mandates.

§ 19.

The propagation of candidate lists and blank tickets.

(1) The President of the Regional Election Committee shall submit a copy of the documents in force, indicating either the order number, the name of the party and all the candidates and their order (§ 14 (2), § 17 (5)).

(2) Each candidate list shall be reproduced in particular in the form of a ballot, in letters of the same type and size, on paper of the same colour and quality and of the same size, and shall bear the seal of the Regional Election Committee at the same place. Candidate lists shall be multiplied by at least one fifth of the number of voters of the electoral district concerned.

(3) At the same time, the President of the Regional Election Committee shall multiply the blank ballots, marked in the header with the words "Empty ballots" and the sealed seal of the Regional Election Committee. The other empty area is broken by two lines in the way of diagonals. They shall be issued on paper of the same colour and quality and of the same dimensions as ballots and in the number corresponding to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

(4) The President of the Regional Election Committee shall send the multiple candidate lists (ballots) and blank ballots to the Presidents of the local national committees, inviting them to deliver them to all voters.

(5) In its district, the local national committee will send to each voter a ballot and an empty ballot (§ 27), sent to him by the chairman of the Regional Election Committee, in municipalities with more than 1000 voters registered on the permanent electoral lists no later than the third day before the election date and in other municipalities no later than the second day before the election date.

HLAVA TŘETÍ.

Choice.

§ 20.

Election day.

(1) The choice takes place on Sunday from 8 am. The final hour shall be determined by the surveillance authority. In electoral positions (§ 3, paragraph 1), with a number of voters up to 500, the choice takes at least 6 hours, and in other electoral places at least 8 hours.

(2) On the day before the choice from 14 p.m. and on the day of the choice until one hour after the end of the choice, it is prohibited to sell, chow or serve drinks containing alcohol.

§ 21.

Election decree.

(1) No later than the 8th day before the date of the election, the Regional National Committee shall issue a public decree at the ballot point and in the manner at the usual date, an initial and final hour, as well as an election room indicating which or which of them are intended for persons with electoral passes (§ 3, par. 3).

(2) In a decree which must be published until the date of the election, either the electorate should be warned that the election is to be declared if doubts arise as to their identity, by an official document certifying their identity (§ 22, paragraph 4), or by testifying to two voters, unless the electorate has such documents at hand. In addition, the voters in the decree should be invited to collect their candidate lists in person at the designated place and, after the case of a legitimate ticket (§ 22), if they have not been delivered in time for any obstacle and, where necessary, to present an official document certifying their identity. In addition, the decree shall state which parties are running in the electoral district.

§ 22.

Legitimation tickets.

(1) The Minister of the Interior may designate a decree in the Official Journal of the Republic of the Czechoslovak Municipality, in particular with a larger number of voters, or a municipality forming an election post pursuant to § 3, paragraph 2, in which the local national committee is obliged to deliver to each voter at the same time as the ballots and blank ballots.

(2) In the legitimate letter, which must bear the seal of the local national committee, please indicate either: the serial number of the electoral list, the last name and the name of the voter, the day, the hours and the room of the election and the essential provisions on electoral duties, the voting arrangements and the penalties. For a lost or damaged legitimacy card, voters shall be issued for a card (paragraph 4) another legitimacy card, clearly identified as a duplicate.

(3) Undelivered legitimacy cards shall be handed over by the local national committee to the relevant local electoral committee, for which the voter may, on the day of the election, request the issue of a legitimate ticket if he submits an official document of his identity as required.

(4) The voter, if doubts arise as to his identity, shall be reported by an official document certifying his identity (e.g. civil legitimacy, passport, work card, home certificate, birth certificate, first-name certificate) or by testifying to two voters, unless the voter has such documents at hand.

§ 23.

Access to the polling room.

(1) In addition to the members of the Circular Election Committee, the Auxiliary Forces (§ 42), the confidential bodies (§ 6) and the representative of the Supervisory Authority (§ 41 (5)), only voters who are registered in the permanent lists of the electorate concerned or have electoral passes (§ 3 (3)). As soon as the voter handed over the ballot, he is to leave the polling room immediately.

(2) Agitation or establishment of an agitation office in a building in which there is an election room is not permitted.

§ 24.

Vote.

(1) The Circular Electoral Committee oversees the proper surrender of ballots and oversees the maintenance of order in the electoral room. Members of the Election Committee shall not be allowed to correct or supplement ballots, even if the electorate has been asked to do so. The submission of the ballot shall be indicated by the members of the Election Committee in both sets of electoral lists, in the same column, which shall be used to indicate the vote in that election.

(2) After its establishment, the district election committee will examine the fates before the election begins. Only such a box that can be closed with a lock and has large enough dimensions can be used for the election fate.

(3) Then the vote shall be taken. The voter shows up with a legitimate ticket and all the ballots that were delivered to him. When they come before the election committee, they announce their surname, name and apartment. At the same time, it shall submit a certificate of identity, after an official document, in accordance with § 22 (4). The Circuit Election Committee shall take a legitimate ticket from the electorate and shall determine whether the electorate has all the ballots and blank ballots to be delivered, uncrossed and unmarked, in accordance with Paragraph 19 (5), but shall not change the order of the ballots as it has brought them. For missing, crossed or otherwise marked, he will deliver another so that the voter has all the ballots and empty ballots. He will also issue an empty envelope bearing an official stamp. All envelopes shall be opaque, of the same size, quality and colour and shall have no distinct mark.

(4) The voter himself puts the ballot in an envelope so separate that it cannot be observed, and puts the candidate papers that he has left in a special box, then throws the envelope in the ballot box before the election committee. In this way, the members of the Regional Election Committee shall cast their votes first. Then the other voters choose gradually as they arrived in the voting room.

(5) Ignorance and those who are unable to surrender the ballot themselves shall exercise their right to vote in the parade of the voter with whom they share the household, or in the parade of the voter with whom they have freely chosen as a guide. The guide shall submit a ballot, in the case of a document of his principal; The Election Committee will find out by asking if the electorate has chosen his guide freely, if he knows his name and surname, and will write this way of choosing, especially in the record of the election.

§ 25.

Voting of voters.

(1) Persons with election cards may submit their votes only in the voting rooms designated for them. Paragraph 24 (4), second sentence, remains unaffected.

(2) Persons to whom an electoral pass has been issued shall surrender the electoral pass to the Circular Committee and be identified by an official document (§ 22 (4)). Election cards shall be attached as annexes to the Choice Record (§ 31).

(3) Persons who have taken part in an election under an electoral licence shall be entered in a special voting list.

§ 26.

Objection against voters.

(1) The Circuit Election Committee decides whether the electorate is allowed to submit a ballot only if there is doubt as to its identity.

(2) This objection may be submitted by the members of the constituency committee concerned or by the party's confidants (Article 6) until the ballot of the citizen whose right is denied has yet to be placed in the fates. The election committee's decision shall normally take place before another voter is admitted to surrender the ballot. If the voter asks for proof of his identity, he may do so no longer than before the end of the vote.

§ 27.

Contents of ballots and blank ballots.

(1) The voter may submit a candidate list to either party. The cuts, reservations and other changes have no effect.

(2) The voter may surrender an empty ticket (§ 19, par. 3).

(3) The number of blank tickets surrendered shall be indicated in the selection note. Article 31, paragraph 2 and 32, paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the reporting of the number of blank tickets surrendered.

§ 28.

Abort the election.

If circumstances arise that make it impossible to start, continue or end election negotiations, the district election committee may extend the term of the election or postpone the election to a later hour. Such measures may not reduce the total duration of the choice provided for in Paragraph 20 (1). Such a measure shall be immediately declared publicly at the usual place. If the election is interrupted, the electoral record and the election fate, with the voting papers submitted by the electoral committee, are sealed and the integrity of the seal detected by the protocol in the new election.

§ 29.

End of vote.

When the election time runs out, the polling room closes. However, all voters who are in the voting room or in the waiting room will be elected by the electoral committee designated for the voters or directly in front of the voting room; then the President of the Election Commission shall declare the vote closed.

HLAVA ČTVRTÁ.

Detection and declaration of the result of the choice.

§ 30.

Count of votes.

(1) When the vote is closed, only the election parties' confidants will remain in the voting room, except for the members of the Regional Electoral Committee, the representative of the Supervisory Authority and the auxiliary forces. The Election Committee shall remove the envelopes with voting tickets from the fates, count the official envelopes (§ 24, paragraph 3) and compare the number of envelopes with the records in the electoral lists. Unofficial envelopes shall not be taken into account. They shall then exclude invalid tickets, divide the ballots by electoral party and identify the election result by double written record. In doing so, each member of the Election Committee shall have the right to consult the ballots.

(2) For the benefit of the Party's candidate list, voting lists on which candidates' names are crossed or changed shall also be counted.

(3) Votes are invalid if they are not on the form issued by the Regional Election Committee. If there are several candidate lists of different parties in the envelope, all votes in this envelope are invalid. There are also invalid ballots which appear on an invalid candidate list (Section 16 (2)). If there are several candidate lists of the same party or several blank tickets in the envelope, one shall be counted as a vote. If there are one or several candidate lists of the same party and one or more blank tickets in the envelope, the vote shall be counted in favour of the party whose candidate list has been surrendered.

§ 31.

Choice report.

(1) A double-copy entry shall be drawn up on the result of the choice. It shall record the names of the members of the Election Committee, the representative of the Supervisory Body and of the Confidentials, the beginning, end and possible interruption of the election, all the decisions of the Election Committee with a brief justification, as well as the more important circumstances concerning the conduct of the elections, and the outcome of the election, giving the sum of the votes cast for each party. The total shall either include the votes recognised as valid by the election committee; the total of the votes null and void shall be given in particular.

(2) The record shall state explicitly how many voters were entitled to vote, how many actually took part in the election, how many men and women were, and how many of them were elected on the basis of the election cards.

§ 32.

Notification of the result of the choice.

(1) The Circular Election Committee shall send without delay a copy of the minutes directly to the President of the Regional Election Committee. The second copy of the minutes shall be sent to the district national committee (city-based, Bratislava and Košice local national committee), which shall, in addition, be notified by e-mail or telephone of the outcome of the vote.

(2) At an election site in which there are several election rooms, the district election committees shall submit the minutes of the election committee, in whose circumference the main building of the local national committee, to the Office of the local national committee of a larger municipality (§ 3, paragraph 2). The Circular Election Committee shall draw up, on the basis of the election results established by the other Circular Election Committees, an election result from the entire electoral position and shall notify it to the President of the Regional Election Committee with one copy of all the entries and to the District National Committee with a second copy. Paragraph 1, second sentence, shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(3) The outcome of the elections in the district of the National Committee will be announced by its chairman (in the city of Bratislava and Košice, the President of the Local National Committee) immediately by telegraph or telephone and in writing to the Ministry of Interior and Regional Election Committee.

(4) Voting cards, legitimacy cards, envelopes and voting lists, as well as documents (§ 26) and electoral cards will be placed in special packages by the district election committee, sealed, labelled and deposited with the local national committee.

§ 33.

Finding out the outcome of the election in the electoral district.

(1) The Regional Election Committee shall meet at its seat uninvited the next day (Tuesday) after the election at 10 a.m..

(2) According to the entries received from the Circular Election Committees and the official reports of the District National Committees, the Regional Election Committee finds the sum of all valid votes cast for each party and the sum of blank tickets.

(3) The President of the Regional Electoral Committee shall immediately send one copy of the minutes drawn up for the deliberations of the Regional Electoral Committee, supported by the entries and reports referred to in paragraph 2, directly to the Ministry of the Interior, to which the content of the minutes shall be communicated by telegraph.

§ 34.

Determination of the number of Members elected in the electoral regions.

(1) The Central Election Committee will review the entries and reports received from the Regional Election Committees (§ 33 (3)) and shall determine by them the sum of all valid votes cast for all parties in each electoral region and in each country.

(2) The total number of votes in force cast for the parties candidate in the country in question is divided by the number of mandates per country in accordance with Article 2. The whole number thus calculated is the Earth's mandate number.

(3) The country's mandate number is then divided by the total number of valid votes cast in each of the electoral regions. The whole number thus calculated is the number of mandates belonging to either of the electoral regions.

(4) If not all the mandates for which the country belongs have been so occupied, the Central Electoral Committee shall order these mandates gradually in the same country to the electoral regions, showing the largest remainder. In the event of equality of remains, the ticket will decide.

§ 35.

First scrutinium.

(1) The sum of valid votes cast for all parties in the electoral region shall be divided by the number of mandates to be filled in the electoral region concerned (§ 34); the whole number by dividing it without fractions is the voting number.

(2) The voting number shall be divided by the sum of the votes cast for each candidate list, after which the Central Electoral Committee shall order each party as many mandates as the number is included in the total of the votes cast for the party cast.

(3) From each election party, the mandates of the party assigned by the candidates shall be given in the order indicated on the candidate list. Where a candidate's list is printed from the candidate list submitted to the Regional Election Committee, the content and order of the candidate list shall apply. If a party has not appointed as many candidates as its mandates are due to the result of the first skrutini, it will receive only as many mandates as it has candidate.

Citation	Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll., on the Choice of the Constitutional National Assembly
Regulation Type	-
Author	-
Collection	Code of Laws

Date of Promulgation	18.04.1946
Effective from	18.04.1946
Effective until	-
Status	Valid

Act No. 67 / 1946 Coll.

Law on the Choice of the Constitutional National Assembly

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