§ 1 The voting protocol shall be transmitted as follows:

1) to the representative referred to in Article. 173, designated by the competent electoral commission of higher rank; in the elections to the Sejm and the Senate, the election of the President of the Republic and in the elections to the European Parliament,;

2) to the - municipal electoral commission; in elections to the municipal council and mayor elections;

3) to the county election commission.; in the elections for district council and the regional council region § 2 The representative referred to in § 1 item 1, checks for compliance to determine the correctness of the arithmetic results of the vote in the circuit and confirms the correctness of circuit electoral commission the set of results or shows the incompatibility of the arithmetic data in the protocol, which circuit electoral commission is obliged to explain and appropriately improve and make public the corrected result as per the procedure specified in Article. 77.

§ 3 Electoral Commissions referred to in § 1 point 2 and 3, check for compliance to determine the correctness of the arithmetic results of the vote in the circuit. In the case it finds inconsistencies in the protocol data arithmetic, the circuit electoral commission is obliged to explain and improve, and make public the corrected result as per the procedure specified in § 4 The manner of transmission and reception and the treatment of the protocol, referred to in § 1, is defined by the National Electoral Commission.