The Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji - MSWiA, in Polish) in collaboration with the National Electoral Office (Krajowe Biuro Wyborcze, in Polish) has created the service 'Append to the register of voters' ('Dopisanie do spisu wyborców', in Polish). This service provides a free, simple and convenient method of communication for citizens with the relevant municipal office, and between different municipal offices. It enables citizens to electronically list themselves as a voter in an electoral district different from their place of domicile or permanent residence. For authorities, offering this service enables them to receive requests from citizens about the electronic addition to the list of voters, and to make and receive electronic transmissions of information with other authorities for the deletion from the list of voters in another voting district.
More specifically, the service facilitates the voter to notify electronically the municipal office of voting district A, which in turns notifies the office of voting district B, where the voter was registered previously. The office of voting district B then sends an electronic reply to the office of voting district A, which in turn sends a further electronic reply to the voter.
The service 'Append to the register of voters' can be performed using the ePUAP platform through any municipal office. In order to receive the services, citizens need to have an ePUAP account and trusted profile or a qualified certificate, and municipalities must have an ePUAP account with the privileges of a public body.
The service is an easy and convenient solution for municipal authorities, since it includes an installation guide which provides step-by-step guidance for the entire process of installation. The installation consists of four steps:
- Log in to ePUAP;
- Select 'Append to electoral register' from the list of services;
- Fill in the form;
- Submit the form.
The service has been updated in response to the change of executive acts relating to elections. These include, among others, the Regulation of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration dated 27 July 2011 on the electoral register (Journal of Laws of 29 July 2011). Due to these changes in the law, the other two services on participation in elections - 'The provision of the register of voters' and 'Entering European Union citizens on the register of voters' - were removed from ePUAP at the request of the National Electoral Commission (Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza, in Polish).
Further information:
- Original news article - IT Projects Centre of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (in Polish)
- What is ePUAP? - ePUAP website
- Background information - ePractice eGovernment Factsheet for Poland
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 12.10.2011
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