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Article 53
 

§ 53. Verification of voting results at county electoral committee

(1) On the basis of the records received from the division committees, the county electoral committees shall verify the number of voters entered in the polling lists, the number of voters who were given a ballot paper, the number of voters who participated in voting, the number of invalid ballot papers and the number of affirmative and negative responses to the issue submitted to the referendum. The ballot papers shall be counted in order to check the results.

(2) If the numbers obtained by recounting the ballot papers are different from the numbers in the records of a division committee, the county electoral committee shall set out the differences and the circumstances which caused such differences in the appendix to the record. The records of the division committee shall not be amended. The county electoral committee shall pass a resolution concerning the final voting results.

(3) A county electoral committee shall prepare a record concerning voting results in the county and in the cities of Tallinn and Tartu which shall be signed by the chairman of the committee. The date and time of preparation of the record shall be indicated therein.

(4) Voting results shall be verified in a county electoral committee in public.