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Article 59
 

Totalization of the voting results by the district electoral council



After having received the protocols and reports from the electoral committees of the polling stations, the district electoral council shall, at first, establish the number of voters who had participated in the elections and shall immediately convey this information to the Central Elections Commission. In case if the number of voters who had taken part in the elections from the entire district is smaller than needed for declaring the elections as valid in that district, the district council shall notify the Central Elections Commission about this fact. The Central Elections Commission or the district electoral council shall make a public announcement of declaring the elections as invalid nation-wide or in that particular district.



Based on the protocols submitted by the electoral committees of the polling stations, the district electoral council shall establish on the whole district:





the number of voters included in the electoral lists;



the number of voters included in the additional lists;



the number of voters who were delivered ballot papers;



the number of voters that took part in the elections;



the number of ballot papers declared invalid;



the number of validly expressed votes for each candidate (for each options regarding the questions subjected to referendum);



the total number of validly expressed votes;



[Entry g) introduced by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999]

 



the number of ballot papers received by the district electoral council ;



the number of unused and annulled ballot papers.





The district electoral council shall record the results of totalization of the nation-wide number of votes in a protocol, signed by all the council members, who had the opportunity to make written comments on the protocol.



The district electoral council shall submit the protocol on the totalization of the district elections' results to the Central Elections Commission within 48 hours after the polling stations were closed.