(1) On the day after the elections, at 09:00, the head of the district election board controls under observation of the present assessors and the postal voting cards which arrived till the election day, 17:00, and also the according to Section 70 paragraph 3 NCEA by the local election authorities received and to the district election authorities forwarded voting cards, no matter in which voting district they were issued, controls the sound condition of the seal. Afterwards he checks if the declarations of honour on the voting cards (section 10 paragraph 3) are present. Voting cards which do not fulfil these conditions, must not be considered in the result. Afterwards the head of the District election commission opens the voting cards, takes the disclosed election envelops and puts them into the pre-prepared container. Voting cards which are void according to section10 paragraph 5 Cif 2 to 7, must also not be included in the counting procedures. Voting cards which are not included in the counting procedures have to be disclosed to the election dossier with a seal/ lock. Reasons for the not including of voting cards have to be written into a protocol. The including election envelops have to be mixed and the district election authority has to open them, has to take out the ballot, to check the validity, to separate the 10 invalid ballots and to mark them with a continuous number and to state the number of the postal voting cards according section 14 paragraph 1 or 2.

(2) Then, the district election authority has to add the results of the postal election voting for the election district to the results according section 14 paragraph 1 or 2, and to communicate it immediately on the quickest way to the relevant provincial election authority (instant notification) and to put it in the protocol. The results of the votes by postal voting have to be protocolled separately by the district election authority. The district election authority has to protocol the figures of the postal voting cards of the different other election districts, separated by election district.

(3) As soon as the election dossiers of the municipal election authorities have arrived at the district election authorities – in Vienna of the precinct election authorities – the district election authorities have to bring them into alphabetic order (following the municipalities) – in Vienna according to election precincts – and to control the results for calculation errors and to correct these errors if necessary. Afterwards, the district election authority has to calculate the final results for the election district and to put them into a protocol.

(4) The protocols according to paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 create the election dossier of the district election authority. The municipal election dossiers, in Vienna the precinct election dossiers and the materials, in which the postal election voters were registered according section 10 paragraph 6, have to be added to the dossier, and have to be immediately secured, if possible in a sealed envelop, and to be forwarded to the relevant provincial election authority.

(5) On the 15th day after the election day, in case of a second election round, on the 15th day after this day, the district election authority has to state the number of the delayed postal voting cards, and has to communicate this figure to the Federal election authority via the Provincial election authorities. Furthermore, it has to assure the destruction of the unopened voting cards at a time when the result of the elections is incontestable.