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Paragraph 42
 

 An amendment to Article 109.3 changes the deadline for submission of preliminary constituency election results to the Central Election Commission and mass media from “24 hours starting from the voting day” to immediately “after acceptance of protocols on voting results of election precincts by the Constituency Election Commission”. This amendment also deletes the text that the summarised schedule of results “integrates voting results for election precincts”. It is not clear whether the deletion of the text “integrates voting results for election precincts” will change the format of the preliminary constituency election results that are provided. As the format of the results is critically important for transparency and tracing of individual precinct election results into subsequent tabulations at a higher level, it should be verified whether this amendment will negatively affect transparency or the ability to check the tabulated results against the original election precinct results for each individual polling station.