(1) The election records, poll books, electoral registers, poll cards, ballot papers and other voting material which the election committee has received in connection with general elections or referendums shall be kept by the local council. In nomination districts consisting of more than one municipality the election material shall be kept by the local council of the constituency municipality.

(2) Each local council shall keep a copy of the poll books and any other voting material which the local council has received.

(3) The electoral registers, poll cards, ballot papers and the advance voting material shall be destroyed at the expiry of the time allowed for complaints, see sections 88 and 103, and any complaints about the election have been finally decided, but see subsection (4). Other voting material shall be kept as prescribed by the Archives Act.

(4) If the local council so directs, voting material covered by the first sentence of subsection (3), may be used for research and statistical purposes in accordance with the rules in Regulation(EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and the Danish Data Protection Act (databeskyttelsesloven). Voting material covered by the first sentence of subsection, which is used for research and statistical purposes shall be destroyed when the voting material is no longer used for such purposes.