3.2 Subsidiary Bodies of the Election Commission

The federal Commission's devolved-and-temporary machinery: The permanent offices: the provincial election offices (the province-level coordination- and-logistics nodes for the provincial-and-federal polls); the district election offices (the districts' administration, the roll's maintenance, the routine's year-round work); the local-level arrangements (the election-period offices at the metropolitan/sub-metropolitan/municipal and rural-municipality tiers); The election-period machinery: the returning officers' and polling officers' hierarchies (3.3); the election observation administration (the observers' accreditation — the domestic-and- international faces, Unit 4.6); the security coordination (the election-security committees with the police-and-army — the law-and-order's election-time interface); The advisory-and-consultative faces: the parties' all-party meetings (the Commission's consultation culture); the observers' briefings; the media centre (the results' communication).