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Article 178
 

(Proceeding of Ballot Counting)


(1) The ballot counting and the calculation of votes shall proceed under classifications by voting district.


<Amended by Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002>


(2) In order to make it easier to count ballot papers, a Gu/Si/Gun election commission may sort ballot papers into valid votes and invalid votes or sort ballot papers for each candidate (referring to a political pary in cases of an election of proportional representative National Assembly members or an election of proportional representative local council members) or may use machines or electronic computer systems necessary for computing.


<Newly Inserted by Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>


(3) The number of the votes obtained by each candidate (referring to the number of votes obtained by each political party, in an election of proportional representative National Assembly members or an election of  the proportional representative local council members; hereafter in this Article, the same shall apply) shall be announced by the chairperson of a Gu/Si/Gun election commission in the voting district unit on the basis of the ballot-counting briefing chart totalized and prepared by voting district, but all the members of the Gu/Si/Gun election commission who are present shall inspect the number of votes obtained before it is announced publicly and affix their signatures or seals to the ballot-counting briefing chart: Provided, That if any of the members delays ballot counting without any justifiable reason, he/she shall be deemed to renounce his/her authority, and the fact thereof shall be stated in the ballot-counting records.


<Amended by Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011; Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>


(4) No one shall report the number of votes obtained by each candidate, referred to in paragraph (3), before it is officially announced: Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply where data about ballot counting are reported as provided by an election commission.


<Amended by Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>


(5) The procedure for ballot counting, the form of the ballot-counting briefing chart, and other necessary matters shall be prescribed by Regulations of
the National Election Commission.


<Amended by Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>