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Article 36
 

Procedure for determining voting returns by TECs


1. First copies of the Protocols on voting returns of the PECs and electoral documents specified in item 19 of Article 35 hereof, after being signed by members of the PEC shall be promptly handed over under handover act to the TEC, which shall sum up voting returns in the respective territory.
2. Voting returns shall be summarized in the respective territory by the TEC based on the protocols received directly from the PECs, by summing up the data contained in the protocols.
After preliminary check of correctness of the Protocols drawn up by the PECs on voting returns, the TEC shall summarize voting returns in the relevant territory by summing up data of all PECs. Based on voting returns, the TEC shall develop a summary table and protocol, where it shall record summary data specifying the number of PECs, the number of protocols used as a basis for the protocol on voting returns, as well as summarized data of the PEC protocols.
Prior to signing the Protocol on voting returns in the relevant territory, the TEC shall conduct a mandatory final meeting to examine the complaints (applications) connected with the conduct of voting, vote counting and protocol development by PECs. The election commission shall make decisions on each application (statement), after which members of the election commission and the applicants, who agree with the decisions of the election commission on complaints (statement) shall sign the Minutes of the final meeting of the election commission. When signing the Minutes of the final meeting of the election commission the election commission members who disagree with the contents of the Minutes may enclose their particular opinion therewith, and the appropriate entry shall be made in the Minutes. After that the election commission shall sign the protocol on the voting returns in the respective territory.
3. Protocols on voting returns shall be drawn up in duplicate and signed by all members of the TEC present. Two copies of the summary table of voting in the relevant territory, a particular opinion of the commission members, complaints (statements) received and decisions taken shall be attached to the Protocol.
4. Immediately after signing, the first copy of the TEC Protocol with the first copy of the summary table shall be delivered to the CEC.
5. The second copy of the Protocol together with all electoral documents shall be kept by the secretary of the territorial commission in a guarded room until their transfer to the archive. 6. The enlarged protocol form on the election results shall be posted for public review in the place designated by the TEC, and kept there until the end of the election commission work.
7. In case of disclosure of errors and inaccuracies in the protocols and (or) summary tables on the voting results or some doubts as to correctness of protocols received from the TECs, the CEC may take a decision in favor of recounting of votes by the election commission. Recount shall be carried out in a mandatory presence of a member (members) of the CEC. Representatives of candidates, political parties and observers can attend recounting of votes. Based on the vote recount results, the election commission shall draw up a protocol on the voting returns with a mark “Vote recounting”. The protocol shall be immediately sent to the CEC.
8. After signing of the protocol on the voting returns, the secretary of the TEC shall immediately provide each person present at the vote counting with a copy of the protocol on the voting returns with the seal affixed.