§ Art. 34Use of electronic electoral registers

Use of electronic electoral registers.
For voting during a polling session in elections to the Althingi, presidential elections and
referendums, electoral commissions shall use an electronic electoral register, in which case
voters may cast their votes at any polling ward within the constituency, excluding the polling
ward of a municipality whose municipal council has obtained authorisation to use a printed
electoral register.
For voting during a polling session in municipal elections, electoral commissions shall use
an electronic electoral register, and voters may then vote at any polling ward within the
municipality.
Registers Iceland shall decide the design and appearance of electronic electoral registers
and provide municipalities with software for use during the voting on polling day.
After receiving proposals from the National Electoral Commission and Registers Iceland,
the Minister shall issue a regulation further providing for, inter alia, the design and version of
the electoral register, the treatment of data in the register, the register’s security certification,
requirements to be made on hardware used in polling, at what point the use of an electoral
register shall no longer be permitted in the event of a fault or disturbance within the meaning
of Article 88, and what requirements shall be made on an electronic electoral register to
enable electoral commissions to determine at any given time whether or not a voter has cast a
ballot.
A regulation issued by the Minister after receiving the proposal of the National Electoral
Commission may prescribe, based on a reasoned request by the municipal council, that the
voters in a given municipality must cast their votes within the polling ward to which they
have been assigned according to the electoral register.