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Article 46
 

(1) The electoral bureau of constituency shall centralise the information on the votes cast in the entire constituency, for each type of election.


(2) The electoral bureaux of constituency at county level and the electoral bureau of the constituency for the Romanian citizens with the domicile or residence outside the country, the electoral offices in the municipality of Bucharest respectively, shall draw up, as appropriate, the following minutes for each type of election:


a) a minute for each uninominal college set up under the jurisdiction of the constituency, or of the district electoral officerespectively;


b) a minute regarding the centralisation of votes and the finding of the election result, by electoral competitors, at the level of the constituency, or of the district electoral office respectively.


(2-1) The electoral bureau of the Municipality of Bucharest shall draw up a centralising minute, on electoral competitors, by summing up the minutes drawn up by the district electoral offices.


(3) The minute drawn up by the electoral bureau of constituency, or by the district electoral office respectively, for each uninominal college must include the following data and information:


a) the total number of the electors provided for in the electoral rolls in the uninominal college, by observing the formula:


point a = point a1 + point a2


a1) the total number of electors according to the copies of the permanent electoral rolls, by observing the formula:


point a1 ≥ point b1;


a2) the total number of electors according to the additional electoral rolls, by observing the formula:


point a2 ≥ point b2;


b) the total number of electors who went to poll,registered in the electoral rolls in the uninominal college, by observing the formula:


point b = point b1 + point b2


b1) the total number of electors who went to poll, registered in the copies of the permanent electoral rolls;


b2) the total number of electors who went to poll, registered in the additional electoral rolls;


c) the number of the ballot papers received,by observing the formula:


point c ≥ point d + point e + point f + pointg;


d) the number of the unused and annulled ballot papers;


e) the total number of the validly cast votes, by observing the formula:


pointe≤[pointb–(pointf+pointg)];pointe=the sum of the validly


cast votes at point i;


f) the number of the null ballots;


g) the number of the blank ballots;


h) the minimum necessary number (the majority) of the votes cast for the receipt of a mandate, by observing theformula:


[(point e : 2) + 1];


i)  the total number of the validly cast votes obtained by each candidate.


(3-1) For the setting of the electoral threshold, each electoral bureau of constituency shall draw up a minute including the following data and information:


a)the total number of electors stipulated in the electoral rolls of constituency, by observing the formula:


point a = point a1 + point a2


a-1) the total number of electors according to the copies of the permanent electoral rolls, by observing the formula:


point a1 ≥ point b1;


a-2) the total number of electors according to the additional electoral rolls, by observing the formula:


point a2 ≥ point b2;


b) the total number of electors who went to polls, registered in the electoral rolls in the constituency, by observing the formula:


point b = point b1 + point b2


b-1) the total number of electors who went to polls, registered in the copies of the permanent electoral rolls;


b-2) the total number of electors who went to polls, registered in the additional electoral rolls;


c) the number of the ballot papers received, by observing the formula:


point c ≥ point d + point e + point f + pointg;


d) the number of the unused and annulled ballotpapers;


e) the total number of the validly cast votes, by observing the formula:


pointe≤[pointb–(pointf+pointg)];pointe=the sum of the validly


cast votes at point h;


f) the number of the nullballots;


g) the number of the blankballots;


h) the number of the validly cast votes obtained by each candidate;


i) the means for settling the contestations and the objections received.


(4) The minutes shall be drawn up in two original copies, shall be signed by the president and the other members of the electoral bureau of constituency and shall bear his stamp.


(5) Two copies for each of the two types of minutes drawn up by constituency, together with the objections and contestations, forming one file for each, sealed and signed by the members of the electoral bureau of constituency, shall be sent to the Central Electoral Bureau, under military watch, within no more than 48 hours, with a view to setting the electoral threshold.


(6) One copy of the minute remained at the seat of the electoral bureau of constituency may be placed, on request, at the disposal of the interested persons.