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Article 185
 

(Preparation, etc. of Ballot-Counting Record, Totalization Record, and Election Record)


(1) Each Gu/Si/Gun election commission shall immediately announce the results of the ballot counting, prepare the ballot-counting record, and send
it to the competent constituency election commission (the City/Do election commission, in cases of the presidential election and in the election of
proportional representative National Assembly members).


<Amended by Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004>


(2) The competent constituency election commission, upon receiving the ballot-counting record under paragraph (1), shall immediately calculate and
announce the number of votes obtained by each candidate (referring to a political party in the election of proportional representative local council members) and prepare the election record.


<Amended by Act No. 4947, Apr. 1, 1995; Act No. 6265, Feb. 16, 2000; Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005> 


(3) The City/Do election commission, upon receiving the ballot-counting record under paragraph (1), shall calculate and announce the number of votes obtained by each candidate in cases of the presidential election and the number of votes obtained by each political party in cases of an election of a National Assembly member, prepare the totalization record, and send it to the National Election Commission.


<Amended by Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004>


(4) The National Election Commission, upon receiving the totalization record under paragraph (3), shall calculate and announce the number of votes obtained by each candidate in cases of the presidential election, and the number of votes obtained by each political party in cases of the election of proportional representative National Assembly members, and prepare the election record.


<Amended by Act No. 6265, Feb. 16, 2000; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004>


(5) The chairman and all the members present shall register their names on the ballot-counting record, totalization record and election record, and shall affix their signatures or seals thereto: Provided, That if any of the members refuses signing and sealing without a justifiable reason, he/she shall be deemed to have waived his/her competence and the fact thereof shall be stated in the ballot-counting record, totalization record and election record.


<Amended by Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011>


(6) The forms of the ballot-counting record, totalization record and election record, and other necessary matters shall be prescribed by Regulations of
the National Election Commission.