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Section 71
 

Express Reports, Provisional Results



(1) As soon as the election result for the polling district has been established, the Electoral Officer shall report it to the local authority of the municipality, which shall compile the election results for all the polling districts in the municipality and report the result to the Constituency Returning Officer. If there is only one constituency in the municipality, the Electoral Officer shall report the election result to the Constituency Returning Officer.


The Land Returning Officer may ordain that election results from the municipalities within a district be reported through the administrative authority of the district.


(2) The report shall be made by the quickest means (e.g. by telephone or other electronic means). It shall contain


1. the number of persons eligible to vote,


2. the number of actual voters,


3. the number of valid and invalid first votes,


4. the number of valid and invalid second votes,


5. the number of valid first votes cast for each candidate,


6. the number of valid second votes cast for each Land list.


(3) Upon receipt of the rapid reports from the local authorities of the municipalities, the Constituency Returning Officer shall ascertain the provisional election result for the constituency. Taking into account the results of the postal ballot (Section 75 subsection (4)), he or she shall communicate the provisional election result to the Land Returning Officer by the quickest means; in so doing, he or she shall intimate which candidate may be deemed elected. The Land Returning Officer shall report the constituency results continuously to the Federal Returning Officer as soon as each is received.


(4) Upon receipt of the express reports from the Constituency Returning Officers, the Land Returning Officer shall establish the provisional numerical election result for the Land and report it by the quickest means to the Federal Returning Officer.


(5) Upon receipt of the express reports from the Land Returning Officers, the Federal Returning Officer shall establish the provisional election result for the electoral area in accordance with Section 78.


(6) After carrying out those verifications which are possible without access to the election records, the Returning Officers shall announce the provisional election results orally or in another appropriate form.


(7) The express reports issued by the Electoral Officers, local authorities of the munici-palities and Constituency Returning Officers shall be made in accordance with the specimen at Annex 28. The Land Returning Officer may give instructions on how such express reports shall be transmitted. He or she may also ordain that the election results of the polling districts and the municipalities be communicated at the same time to the Constituency Returning Officer and to himself or herself. The results thus communicated may not be taken into account for determining the provisional election result for the Land by the Land Returning Officer before the information in accordance with subsection (3), second sentence, has been provided by the Constituency Returning Officer.