§ Art. 31Political organisations’ access to electoral registers

Political organisations’ access to electoral registers.
When the completion of the compilation of an electoral register has been made public, cf.
Article 30, the political organisations submitting a list of candidates for election, and the
candidates in presidential elections, may request electronic access to the electoral register at
Registers Iceland. Access shall be granted free of charge, as shall access to any other
documents specified in regulations. The access may be used to monitor the conduct of
elections, verify the identity of voters and to convey information to them in the run-up to an
election. Publication of the electoral register or any information from it, or making it available
to others, is prohibited. When processing personal data under this provision, political
organisations shall comply with the conditions of the Act on Data Protection and the
Processing of Personal Data.
After receiving proposals from the National Electoral Commission, the Minister shall issue
a regulation further providing for the authorisations of political organisations and candidates
to use information from electoral registers under paragraph 1, their treatment of electoral
registers and the closure of electronic access to them.