Actions of Territorial Electoral Commissions after Receiving Precinct Electoral Commission Protocols
1. Territorial Electoral Commission shall check the validity of protocols on the precinct voting results; if arithmetical errors are found, the Chairman and the Secretary of the appropriate Precinct Electoral Commission shall correct them and endorse the corrections with their signatures. The original data shall not be modified. The original data shall comprise the results of the calculations produced by the Precinct Electoral Commission.
2. Territorial Electoral Commission shall input the data in protocols on the precinct voting results into a computer by means of an appropriate software. The software shall ensure reasonable guarantees against errors due to incorrect data input, in accordance with procedures defined by the Central Electoral Commission. The Commission shall regularly, but not less frequently than every three hours, tabulate the voting results by precincts, including the error margin, with the help of the computer. The Territorial Electoral Commission shall complete the input of data from precinct protocols on voting results into the computer within no more than 18 hours of the end of the voting. In the Territorial Electoral Commission, the voting results, by precinct, shall be tabulated, stamped and endorsed by the Chairman (Deputy Chairman) and Secretary of the Territorial Electoral Commission. If a proxy requests it, he/she shall receive the tabulated data on voter turnout in a precinct, endorsed by the Commission Chairman.
3. A copy of tabulated precinct voting results, endorsed by signatures of the Commission Chairman (Deputy Chairman) and the Secretary and the Commission’s stamp, shall be posted immediately in a visible place in the Commission. Upon their request, commission members, proxies or observers shall receive a copy of tabulated precinct voting results, verified by signatures of the Commission Chairman (Deputy Chairman) and Secretary and the Commission’s stamp. Precinct Electoral Commissions’ stamps shall be transferred from Territorial Electoral Commissions to the Central Electoral Commission, 24 hours after the end of the voting, in accordance with procedures defined by the Central Electoral Commission.
4. During national elections, the Territorial Electoral Commission shall not make a protocol on summarization of voting results in the electoral district.
Article 63.1. Procedures for Territorial Electoral Commission’s Summarization of Results of National Assembly Elections under Majoritarian System and Local Self-Government Elections
1. Within no more than 18 hours after the end of the voting, in compliance with requirements of this Article and based on protocols on precinct voting results, the Territorial Electoral Commission shall summarize the preliminary results of National Assembly elections under majoritarian system and local self-government elections in the district and verify them in the form of a protocol.
2. If there is a complaint in the Territorial Electoral Commission about the precinct voting results, the Territorial Electoral Commission shall summarize the elections results in the district and verify them by a protocol, based on the protocols on precinct voting results, court rulings and the results of recounts in the electoral districts, no later than five days after the voting day.
3. Protocols on the results of National Assembly elections under majoritarian system and local self-government elections shall include the following information:
1) the number of participating voters (B) (fill in the number of signatures of the voters who registered and received ballots);
1.1) Revoked.
2) the number of ballots allocated to Precinct Electoral Commissions (A) and the numbers of stubs;
2.1) Revoked.
3) the total number of ballots cancelled in Precinct Electoral Commissions (C);
4) Revoked.
5) the number of invalid ballots (d2);
6) the number of used ballot stubs (E);
7) the number of ballots cast for each candidate;
8) the number of ballots cast against the candidate (this line is filled in if only one candidate is running);
9) the number of valid ballots (d1) (equals the sum total of all ballots cast for the candidates) (and the sum total of all ballots cast for and against the candidate if only one candidate is running);
9.1) the number of ballot envelopes of established specimen (F) in the ballot box.
10) Revoked.
11) the amount of inaccuracies.
The amount of inaccuracies in an electoral district (community) shall be equal to the sum of the amounts of inaccuracies in precincts included in that electoral district (community).
4. The protocol shall be signed by all commission members present at the session and stamped by the Commission Chairman.
5. If any commission member has a special opinion about the data in the protocol, he or she shall present his/her opinion in writing, which shall be attached to the protocol, and he or she shall make a note next to his/her signature to that effect.
6. If a commission member refuses to sign the protocol, the protocol shall include a note about that.
7. Once the protocol is signed, the Territorial Electoral Commission shall adopt a decision on the election results, based on the data in the protocol.
8. The Chairman of the Territorial Electoral Commission shall make the protocol public and officially send copies of the protocol and the adopted decisions to the Central Electoral Commission.
9. A copy of the protocol shall be posted in a visible place at the Commission, immediately after all the steps described in this Article are taken.
10. A copy of the protocol, signed by the Commission Chairman (Deputy Chairman) and Secretary and stamped by the Commission stamp, shall be provided to proxies commission members or observers, upon their request.
11. The format of the protocol on the results of National Assembly elections under majoritarian system and local self-government elections, to be prepared by Territorial Electoral Commissions, shall be approved by the Central Electoral Commission.
Article 63.2. Procedures for the Central Electoral Commission’s Summarization of Results of Presidential Elections and National Assembly Elections under Proportional System
1. Within no more than 24 hours after the end of the voting, in compliance with the requirements of this Article and based on precinct voting results received from Territorial Electoral Commissions, the Central Electoral Commission shall summarize the preliminary results of national elections, verify them in the form of a protocol and officially announce the preliminary election results in a live broadcast on Public Radio and Public Television.
2. The session of the Central Electoral Commission shall not be interrupted until the preliminary results of elections are announced.
3. If there is a complaint in a Territorial Electoral Commission about the precinct voting results, the Central Electoral Commission shall summarize the results of the national elections and verify them by a protocol, based on the protocols on precinct voting results received from Territorial Electoral Commissions, court rulings and the results of recounts in electoral districts, no later than seven days after the voting results.
4. Protocols on the results of national elections shall include the following information:
1) the number of participating voters (B) (fill in the number of signature of voters who registered and received ballots);
1.1) Revoked.
2) the number of ballots allocated to Precinct Electoral Commissions (A) and the numbers of stubs;
3) the total number of ballots cancelled in Precinct Electoral Commissions (C);
4) Revoked;
5) the number of invalid ballots (d2);
6) the number of used ballot stubs (E);
7) the number of ballots cast for each candidate, party or party alliance;
8) the number of ballots cast against the candidate (this line is filled in if only one candidate is running);
9) the number of valid ballots (c1) (equals the sum total of all ballots cast for the candidates, parties, party alliances) (if only one candidate is running, equals the sum total of all ballots cast for and against the candidate);
9.1) the number of ballot envelopes of established specimen (F) in the ballot box.
10) Revoked.
11) the amount of inaccuracies.
In the case of national elections, the amount of inaccuracies shall be equal to the sum of the amounts of inaccuracies in all precincts.
5. The protocol shall be signed by all commission members present at the session and stamped by the Commission Chairman.
6. If any commission member has a special opinion about the data in the protocol, he or she shall present his/her opinion in writing, which shall be attached to the protocol, and he or she shall make a note next to his/her signature to that effect.
7. If a commission member refuses to sign the protocol, the protocol shall include a note about that.
8. Once the protocol is signed, the Central Electoral Commission shall adopt a decision on the election results, based on the data in the protocol.
9. The session of the Central Electoral Commission shall not be interrupted until the decision is made under Paragraph 8 of this Article, based on the elections results. Within no more than 3 hours after the end of the session, the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission or any other member of the Commission (as assigned by the Chairman) shall officially announce the final results of the elections and the decision made on the basis of that, in a live broadcast on Public Radio and Public Television from the administrative building of the Central Electoral Commission.
10. Upon their request, proxies of candidates (parties or party alliances) or observers shall receive a copy of the protocol summarizing the election results, verified by the signatures of the Commission Chairman (Deputy Chairman) or Secretary, and stamped by the Commission’s stamp.
11. The format of protocols on the results of national elections shall be approved by the Central Electoral Commission.
12. As it receives preliminary election results, the Central Electoral Commission shall regularly, but not less frequently than every 3 hours, announce preliminary election results by precincts in live broadcasts on Public Radio and Public Television, as well as by posting them on the Central Electoral Commission’s website.
13. Within 3 months of announcing the final results of national elections, the Central Electoral Commission shall publish an analysis of violations of this Code, indicating the measures taken against the perpetrators of the violations.
