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Article 5.22
 

The Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall establish Regulations for counting ballots and establishing the voting results for ballots cast by voters who have voted by tendered ballots, absentee ballots, ballots cast by prisoners or voters confined to institutions, and homebound voters unable to come to the Polling Station due to age, illness or disability, and ballots cast by mail. 

All other ballots shall be counted at the Polling Stations, except where the Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina determines that ballots should be counted at one or more centralised counting centres.  The Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall establish Regulations for counting ballots and establishing the results at a centralised counting centre. The voting results at a centralised counting centre shall be posted at the counting centre so that the results can be publicly viewed, and the copies of voting results shall be delivered to accredited observers at the centralized counting upon their request.

The Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall appoint a director of the Centralised Counting Centre and three deputies. The director and deputies shall be from different constituent peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one shall be a representative of Others. The director and deputies shall be persons experienced in electoral matters and shall not be active members of any political party.

Ballots shall be counted in a manner that would not violate the secrecy of the vote.