Implementing Ordinance on the Act on the Proportional Election of the Landrat (Proportional Representation Ordinance, PropV) (Proporzverordnung, PropV) - Examination of Election Proposals (PropV)

1. The municipal office shall promptly review each electoral proposal and, if necessary, provide the representatives of the signatories of the electoral proposal the opportunity to

1. Rectify defects in the electoral proposal;

2. Amend list titles that may cause confusion;

3. Submit substitute proposals for officially disqualified candidates.

2. The municipalities shall promptly report the received electoral proposals to the cantonal voting office.

3. The municipalities shall report the finalized lists to the cantonal voting office.

1. The cantonal voting office shall promptly inform the municipalities of the finalized designations of the list groups.

1. Ballot papers shall be designed in all municipalities according to a uniform pattern and in a uniform color; the cantonal voting office shall establish the details in a corresponding template.

2. No private ballot papers shall be produced or distributed.

1. On the official ballot papers prepared by the municipal council, the candidates are listed in the same order in which they appear on the electoral proposals.

2. The signatories are free to determine the order of the candidates when submitting the electoral proposals.

3. Candidates proposed for re-election are to be indicated with the addition "(incumbent)".

1. For the purpose of counting, the ballots must be marked with a list number and a list designation.

2. The cantonal voting office assigns a list number to each list group by lot.

3. The ballots are marked with designations and numbers such that every list participating in the election within the same list group receives the same list number and the same list designation in every electoral district.

1. The municipality provides the electoral documents to the eligible voters.

2. The electoral documents consist of

1. a complete set of ballot papers, including a blank ballot paper;

2. the voting instructions issued by the governing council;

3. the voting envelope;

4. the voting rights certificate; and

5. the electoral brochures.

3. The electoral documents must not contain any additional enclosures.

4. All official ballot papers valid in a municipality must be made available at the polling station.

1. The ballot paper must be placed into the ballot box within the voting envelope.

2. Ballot papers found outside an envelope in the ballot box are void.

3. If an envelope contains more than one ballot paper, the vote is invalid.

1. The list designation may be deleted by hand without replacement.

2. A list designation crossed out by hand may be replaced by the list designation from another official ballot paper.

3. Ballot papers without a list designation may also be placed in the ballot box.

4. The control number is not decisive under any circumstances for the allocation of list votes.

1. A candidate designation must not be lightly deemed insufficient; accumulation or cross-voting should generally be recognized as valid, even if only the candidate's name is provided without further designation.

2. If several candidates with the same name appear on different ballots in the same electoral district, accumulation without further designation is to be attributed to the candidate whose name is pre-printed on the respective ballot.

3. If two candidates on a ballot share the same name, an undesignated accumulation is deemed insufficient and must therefore be removed.

4. However, if an accumulation is placed directly next to the respective name, it is valid, as it is assumed that the voting person intended to accumulate that name.

1. Eligible for election are only candidates whose names appear on one of the official ballot papers of the respective electoral district; other names shall be struck off by the electoral office.

2. A name may appear on a ballot paper no more than twice; any additional cumulation is invalid and shall be struck off by the electoral office.

3. Illegible or inadequate candidate designations shall be struck off by the electoral office.

1. If a ballot paper, after making the deletions according to Paragraphs 9 and 10, still contains more candidates than the number of seats allotted to the respective electoral district, the excess candidates are to be eliminated in the following order

1. Candidate names on the back of the ballot paper;

2. Candidate names noted parallel to the right edge of the list;

3. Candidate names noted parallel to the left edge of the list;

4. Candidate names (printed or handwritten) from bottom to top, and if more than one name is at the same level, from right to left;

5. If all candidates are numbered, the elimination is carried out in the order of numbers, starting with the highest number.

1. In all electoral districts, the election results must be recorded electronically.

1. The municipal voting offices compile the election results in accordance with the legislation and promptly transmit them to the cantonal voting office.

2. The cantonal voting office issues directives for a uniform compilation of the election results by the municipal voting offices.

3. The municipal voting office must promptly submit one copy of the protocol on the parliamentary elections to the cantonal voting office. One copy is to be retained in the municipal archive.

4. The electoral documents are to be preserved by the municipalities until the validation of all elections by the Cantonal Parliament has occurred.

1. The cantonal voting office evaluates the results in accordance with the legislation.

1. The cantonal voting office reports the election results to the municipal voting offices as soon as the elections have been fully evaluated and publishes the election results.

1. If an election result gives rise to doubt, the Government Council may, ex officio, order a review of the election materials by a cantonal or municipal authority.

2. If errors are discovered during the review, the Government Council shall order the correction of the election result or the annulment of the election process.

1. Election results that are determined to be incorrect must be rectified in the appeal decision.

2. The electoral process must be annulled in whole or in part by the appeal decision if

1. Procedural errors are identified;

2. It cannot be ruled out that these procedural errors may have decisively affected the voting outcome; and

3. The effects cannot be remedied by the appeal decision.

3. In the event an electoral process is annulled, the government council shall make the necessary arrangements for the election to be repeated.

1. This regulation shall enter into force on November 1, 2013.