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Article 84
 

1. Precinct election commission shall formalise its decisions on voting results in the corresponding electoral precinct in two protocols: Protocol No 1 - on voting results in the single-mandate electoral district and Protocol No 2 - on voting results in the federal electoral district (hereinafter also - protocols of the precinct election commission on voting results).


2. Protocols of a precinct election commission on voting results may be compiled electronically. Transmission by precinct election commissions to higher election commissions of protocols on voting results compiled electronically, receipt of such protocols by higher election commissions, and input of the data contained in these protocols into GAS Vybory shall be established by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.


3. If the protocols of the precinct election commission on voting results are compiled on paper, each of them shall, as a rule, contain one page. If the protocol consists of more than one page, each page must be numbered, signed by all present voting members of the precinct election commission, and stamped by the precinct election commission. Each protocol shall contain:


1) number of the protocol copy;


2) name of the election, date of voting, name of the electoral district, and for the singlemandate electoral district also its number;


3) the word "Protocol";


4) address of the polling station indicating the number of the polling station;


5) the following lines of the protocol:


a) line 1: the number of voters included in the voter list at the end of voting;


b) line 2: the number of ballots received by the precinct election commission;


c) line 3: the number of ballots issued to voters who voted early;


d) line 4: the number of ballots issued by the precinct election commission to voters at the polling station on voting day;


e) line 5: the number of ballots issued to voters who voted outside the polling station on voting day;


f) line 6: the number of cancelled ballots;


g) line 7: the number of ballots in mobile ballot boxes;


h) line 8: the number of ballots in the stationary ballot boxes;


i) line 9: the number of invalid ballots;


j) line 10: the number of valid ballots;


k) line 11: the number of absentee vote certificates received by the precinct election commission;


l) line 12: the number of absentee vote certificates issued by the precinct election commission to voters at the polling station prior to voting day;


m) line 13: the number of voters who voted with absentee vote certificates at a polling station;


n) line 14: the number of cancelled unused absentee vote certificates;


o) line 15: the number of absentee vote certificates issued to voters by the territorial election commission;


 p) line 16: the number of lost absentee vote certificates;


q) line 17: the number of lost ballot papers;


r) line 18: the number of ballots not recorded during receipt.


4. Line 19 and subsequent lines of Protocol No 1 shall record the surnames, first names and patronymics of registered candidates included on the ballot in alphabetical order, and if their surnames, first names and patronymics are the same – other data on such candidates and the number of votes cast for each registered candidate.


5. Line 19 and subsequent lines of Protocol No 2 shall record the names of political parties which registered federal lists of candidates, in the order they appear on the ballot, and the number of votes cast for each federal list of candidates.


6. Each protocol of the precinct election commission on voting results shall contain: 1) information about the number of complaints (applications)received by the precinct election commission on voting day and before the end of the counting of votes, attached to the protocol. If the complaint (application) indicates violations of the present Federal Law, other federal laws during voting both in the federal electoral district and the singlemandate electoral district, the complaint (application) shall be attached to the Protocol No 1 and listed in its corresponding column, and a copy of this complaint (application) shall be attached to the Protocol No 2;


2) surnames and initials of the chair, deputy chair, secretary and other members of the precinct election commission with decisive votes and their signatures (if the protocol is composed of more than one page - on each page of the protocol);


3) date and time (hours and minutes) of signing of the protocol (if the protocol is composed of more than one page - on each page of the protocol);


4) for the protocol issued on paper –seal of the precinct election commission (if the protocol is composed of more than one page - on each page of the protocol).


7. The numbers referred to in Parts 3 - 5 of this Article shall be entered in the protocols of the precinct election commission on voting results in figures and in words.