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Political organizations intending to submit candidate lists for municipal council elections may establish an electronic endorsement collection for their candidate list in the relevant municipality through this system.

The initiator of an endorsement collection must have legal domicile in the municipality. Please note that the name and date of birth of the initiator will be displayed with the endorsement collection on Ísland.is.

The initiator enters the name of the candidate list themselves and must ensure that the name is entered correctly.

Once the collection has been created, the initiator may designate administrators who will have access to the collection. An administrator may, for example, be an employee or volunteer working on behalf of the candidate list. Administrators may monitor the progress of the collection and may enter the national identification numbers of endorsers from paper forms if endorsements have been collected in that manner.

Electronic endorsement collections may only be established in municipalities that have decided to make use of the system.

Once an endorsement collection has been created, individuals who have the right to vote in the municipality may log in using electronic identification and endorse the candidate list.

When an endorsement collection has been created, a direct link to the collection will be generated within the system. This link may be copied and shared to facilitate individuals endorsing a particular political organization.

When a political organization submits its notification of candidacy to the municipal supervisory election committee, it must indicate that endorsements were collected electronically. A report on the status of the collection may be obtained from the endorsement system.

It is prohibited to copy, disclose, or otherwise use information about endorsers for any purpose other than collecting endorsements for the submission of a candidate list.

The municipalities that have enabled electronic endorsement collection are:

• Akranes

• Akureyri

• Bláskógabyggð

• Borgarbyggð

• Dalvíkurbyggð

• Eyjafjarðarsveit

• Fjallabyggð

• Flóahreppur

• Garðabær

• Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur

• Hafnarfjörður

• Hrunamannahreppur

• Húnabyggð

• Húnaþing vestra

• Hveragerði

• Hörgársveit

• Ísafjarðarbær

• Kópavogur

• Mosfellsbær

• Múlaþing

• Norðurþing

• Rangárþing eystra

• Reykjanesbær

• Reykjavík

• Skagafjörður

• Skorradalshreppur

• Strandabyggð

• Suðurnesjabær

• Sveitarfélagið Árborg

• Sveitarfélagið Vogar

• Sveitarfélagið Ölfus

• Vesturbyggð

• Þingeyjarsveit

The minimum number of endorsements required varies depending on the size of the municipality:

• In a municipality with 101–500 inhabitants: 10 endorsers

• In a municipality with 501–2,000 inhabitants: 20 endorsers

• In a municipality with 2,001–10,000 inhabitants: 40 endorsers

• In a municipality with 10,001–50,000 inhabitants: 80 endorsers

• In a municipality with 50,001 or more inhabitants: 160 endorsers

The maximum number of endorsements permitted is twice the minimum required number of endorsements.

The National Electoral Commission and the municipal supervisory election committee are responsible for the processing of personal data used for the purpose of identifying candidates and endorsers. The privacy policy of the National Electoral Commission can be accessed here.