How is the national electoral register created?
Austria
Answer
Extracted from a population/civil registry
Source
There are approximately 6.4 million registered voters, including some 40,000 registered abroad. Registration is passive and based on extracts from a Central Population Register that is administered and updated at the municipal level. A government initiative to introduce a centralized voter register has not yet received parliamentary support; however, legal amendments in 2015 did grant the MoI powers to access municipal voter registers, thereby allowing the detection of possible duplicate entries that can be forwarded to the municipalities for their action.
