Counting votes at a polling district commission

(1) After the end of polling, the chairperson of a polling district commission shall have the remaining unused ballot papers and envelopes sealed and the ballot box opened. Where a portable ballot box was used by the polling district commission at the request of citizens, then the contents of both ballot boxes, after being opened,  shall be mixed. 

(2) A polling district commission shall take envelopes with ballot papers from the ballot box, count them, and compare their number with the entries in the electoral register. Envelopes which do not meet the terms pursuant to section 28, and ballot papers which were not in an envelope, shall not be taken into account by the polling district commission.

(3) After taking the ballot papers from the envelopes, a polling district commission shall divide and count the ballot papers cast for individual parties or coalitions, shall exclude spoilt ballot papers, and shall establish how many electors of each political party or coalition exercised the right to a preferential vote. Subsequently, the polling district commission shall count the preferential votes cast for individual candidates on the ballot papers.

(4) Any member of a polling district commission may look at the ballot papers. The chairperson of the polling district commission shall supervise the correctness of the vote count.