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Article 99
 

Election results in the constituencies


Then, in the presence of these persons, the senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]1)will open the packages with the ballots from each polling ward, but only after they have had an opportunity to make sure that all seals are unbroken. The senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]1)shall check if the number of voters who have cast their votes according to the election log books of the local electoral commissions corresponds with the number of delivered ballot papers and the notes that were entered by the local electoral commissions. If the senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]1)has received a letter with pre-election votes pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 90, it should be treated as stated in paragraph 2 of the same Article. As soon as each ballot box is opened, the ballot papers contained therein shall be tipped without being inspected into a suitable empty container, but care must be taken that ballot papers from individual polling wards are mixed well together.


The ballot papers shall then be removed from the container in the presence of the agents of the lists, listed according to the letters of the alphabet of the lists which have been marked on each ballot paper, and then counted under the direction of the senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission].1)


It is permitted to begin the classification of the votes and to prepare counting them in camera before the polling session ends.


1)Act No. 15/2003, Article 17.