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Article 1
 

On the Wednesday following the election day, the election committee shall meet to examine and count the votes that have not been counted at the polling stations. This meeting is public. The result of the committee’s counting of votes is preliminary.


At the meeting the committee shall examine


1. window envelopes and cover envelopes for postal votes that up to and including the election day were received by the committee and retained there,


2. window envelopes and cover envelopes for postal votes that the voting clerks have returned to the committee in accordance with Chapter 9, Section 13,


3. window envelopes and cover envelopes for postal votes that were received by the committee before any of the ballot boxes referred to in Section 2 have been emptied, and


4. window envelopes and cover envelopes for postal votes that the voting clerks in accordance with Chapter 9, Section 12 have inserted into special covers.


The examination shall in appropriate respects be conducted in the same way as according to Chapter 9, Sections 9–12.