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Article 40
 

Vote Counting by Ward Election Board

(1) After the voting has finished, the chairman of the ward election board shall arrange for the Formal Envelopes and ballots that have not been used by voters to be put under seal. But several of the unused ballots needed by the ward election board for the counting of votes (see Article 42, Paragraph 3 below) shall not be sealed. Then, the chairman shall have the regular ballot-box opened. Should certain voters have required the use of a portable ballot-box, and should the ward election board have used it, the portable ballot-box shall be opened, and the contents emptied shall be added to the contents of the regular ballot- box.

(2) The ward election board shall remove the Formal Envelopes containing ballots from ballot-boxes, count the number of Formal Envelopes found, and compare the number arrived at with records entered into extracts from both the Permanent Electoral Roll and the Register of Persons Unable to Vote Locally. No envelopes other than the Formal Envelopes shall be admitted by the ward election board.

(3) Having emptied Formal Envelopes, the ward election board shall sort the ballots by Political Parties and coalitions voted for, and separately add up the votes cast for each Political Party and coalition, ruling out those ballots that fail to comply with the legal requirements. Further on, the number of voters who have chosen one and the same Political Party or coalition, and who have exercised their right to express their candidate preferences shall be totalled separately for each Political Party and coalition, and the number of the preferential votes cast for each individual candidate on the party/coalition ballot shall then be summed up separately for each Political Party or coalition.

(4) Each member of the ward election board shall have the right to see the contents of any ballot-paper. The regularity of vote counting shall be supervised by the chairman of the ward election board.