§ Article 16Formation of the Committees of Polling Districts

1. No later than 65 days prior to the elections, the municipal electoral committee shall determine the number of the members of each electoral committee of the polling district that must be a multiple of the number of the parties which have the right to nominate candidates to electoral committees. At least 5 members must comprise a committee of a polling district. If the number of the candidates nominated by the parties is insufficient or if there is a vacancy in the committee and the party does not nominate a candidate, the director of the administration of the municipality in the territory whereof the polling district is formed may nominate the needed candidates, upon the request of the municipal electoral committee.
2. An equal number of candidates to the electoral committees of the polling districts may be nominated by:
1) each party or a coalition of the parties which, during the last elections to the Seimas, received mandates of the Seimas members in the multi-member constituency. If a party received mandates of the Seimas members while in a coalition, the candidates may be nominated together with the parties in this coalition;
2) a party or a coalition of parties which during the last election to the municipal council received mandates of the municipal councillors. If a party received mandates of the municipal councillors while in a coalition, the candidates may be nominated together with the parties in this coalition;
3. If a party may nominate candidates in accordance with the results of both the elections to the Seimas and the elections to the municipal council, it shall nominate its candidates only according to the results of one of said elections, whichever it chooses. If one of the parties which took part in an election coalition fails to nominate candidates or refuses to nominate them, or if it chooses to nominate candidates according to the results of the elections other than those when the coalition was formed, the other parties in this coalition have the right to nominate candidates without the participation of said party.
4. A party shall submit its list of candidates for the members of the electoral committees of the polling districts to the municipal electoral committee no later than 48 days prior to the elections.
5. Electoral committees of the polling districts for the period of the elections shall be formed by municipal electoral committees no later than 45 days before the elections. If the candidate nominated by the party meets the requirements of this Law the municipal electoral committee may not turn him down.
6. If no candidates have been nominated or the nominated candidates do not meet the requirements of this Law, or if they have been nominated after the expiration of the prescribed time limit, municipal electoral committees may reduce the number of members of the electoral committee of the polling districts established earlier or may ask the director of the municipal administration to nominate the lacking number of candidates. The candidates nominated by the director of the municipal administration may not be party members or become party members until the expiration of the term of office of an electoral committee member. If during a meeting of a municipal electoral committee which appoints a member of the electoral committee of a polling district nominated by the director of the municipal administration no less than three members of the municipal electoral committee object to the appointment of the candidate, this candidate may not be appointed a member of the committee.
7. Municipal electoral committees shall appoint chairmen of the electoral committees of the polling districts.
8. During its first meeting the electoral committee of the polling district shall elect the deputy chairman and the secretary of the committee.