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d) By being. or having been, during the last year, before the
election, in receipt of poor relief.
53. The right to vote shall be lost:
a) By having been condemned to penal servitude or dismissal
from office, or to imprisonment for a crime that is dealt with in
any of the chapters of the criminal law on perjury, theft, robbery,
or fraud. This effect of the sentence shall be annulled on having
acquired «restitution of honour»;
b) By entering the service of a foreign power without the
consent of the Government;
c) By acquiring citizenship in a foreign State;
d) By being convicted of having bought votes, sold one’s own
vote, or voted at more than one poll.
54. The polls and the district conventions shall he held every
three years. They shall all be over by the end of September.
55. The polls shall be held in the country in the principal
church of the parish; in the towns in the church, at the town-hall,
or at some other suitable place. They shall be conducted in the
country by the parson and his assistants; in the towns by the
burgomaster and aldermen [1]. The voting shall take place in the
order of the names on the register. Questions as to the right of
voting shall be decided by the conductors of the poll, against whose
decision there shall be an appeal to the Storthing.
56. Before the elections commence, §§ 50—64 of the
Constitution shall be read out aloud by the presiding officer.
57. In the towns, one electoral representative shall be nominated
for every fifty inhabitants entitled to vote. These electoral
representatives assemble within eight days from that date at a place appointed
for that purpose by the authorities, and elect, either from their own
number or from among the other qualified voters in their electoral
district, representatives to attend and take their seats in the Storthing.
The number of representatives in the Storthing which the towns
have to elect is fixed at 38. Of these there shall be elected, until
it is otherwise determined in a constitutional manner, from Aalesund
and Molde together one, from Arendal and Grimstad together one,
from Bergen four, from Brevik one, from Kristiania, Hønefoss, and
Kongsvinger together four, from Kristiansand two, from
Kristiansund one, from Drammen two, from Flekkefjord one, from
Fredrikshald one, from Fredrikstad one, from Hammerfest, Vardø, and
Vadsø together one, from Holmestrand one, from Kongsberg one,
from Kragerø one, from Larvik and Sandefjord together one, from
Lillehammer, Hamar, and Gjøvik together one, from Moss and
Drøbak together one, from Porsgrund one, from Sarpsborg one,
from Skien one, from Stavanger and Haugesund together two, from
Tromsø one, from Trondhjem and Levanger together four, from
Tønsberg one, and from Østerrisør one.
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