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Article 457
 

(1) The chairperson or the deputy chairperson, the secretary and a member of the section election commission, nominated by different parties and coalitions, shall deliver to the Central Election Commission the copies of the tally sheets of the municipal election commission, the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions destined for the Central Election Commission, copies of the receipts referred to in Article 445 (6) herein and the machine-voting recording technical devices not later than 48 hours after receipt of the last tally sheet of a section election commission in the constituency. The tally sheets of the municipal election commissions shall be delivered to the Central Election Commission with unseparated plies.


(2) The municipal election commission shall also deliver to the Central Election Commission:


1. a copy of the computer print-out of the data on the tally sheets and the decision of the municipal election commission on each type of election, a list of the tally sheets of the section election commission received with the codes of the receipts thereof and the computer proposal for a tally sheet and a decision of the municipal election commission on each type of election, provided by the computation centre;


2. two machine-readable data mediums storing the numerical data generated by the processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions.


(3) After a check of the papers covered under Paragraphs (1) and (2), the Central Election Commission shall issue a receipt to the municipal election commission and a memorandum of delivery and acceptance shall be signed in two identical copies by the representatives of the Central Election Commission and the municipal election commission.


(4) The election stationery and materials of the municipal election commission, with the exception of those destined for the Central Election Commission, and the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, destined for the municipal election commission, shall be delivered to the municipal administration within whose territory the said commission is located.


(5) The election stationery and materials shall be safe-kept by the municipal administrations until the next elections.