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Article 74
 



Counting of Postal Voting Envelopes and Ballot Papers


1. The procedure for counting postal voting envelopes and ballot papers in the Republic of Lithuania shall be laid down and this accounting shall be administered by the Central Electoral Commission.


2. Accounting of postal voting envelopes and ballot papers, their issuing and acceptance when voting shall be managed by the heads of the appropriate post offices. The head of the postoffice shall indicate accounting data in a journal specially designated for this purpose. Accounting of postal voting envelopes and ballot papers used when voting in military units stationed abroad, their issuing and acceptance shall be managed by the commanders of those military units. The commanders of the military units shall transfer to the Central Electoral Commission the accounting data on election documents, unused postal voting envelopes, ballot papers and postal voting envelopes with ballot papers filled in by voters. The Central Electoral Commission shall, not later than until an election day, transfer the received postal voting envelopes with ballot papers filled in by voters to an electoral committee of the polling district on the electoral roll of which a voter has been entered.








3. The post office head or a person authorised by him shall deliver unused postal voting envelopes, receipts confirming the acceptance of the envelopes, special marks and ballot papers to the constituency electoral committee one day prior to an election day.


4. The heads of post offices of persons authorised by them shall deliver postal voting envelopes containing ballot papers marked by voters to constituency electoral committees on the election day, but not later than until 11 am, and the constituency electoral committees shall deliver them to polling district electoral committees before the closing of the polls.


5. Return envelopes, unused and damaged ballot papers of voters who voted on the Thursday preceding an election day, shall be transferred to a constituency electoral committee by the members of the electoral committees who went to the voters voting at home pursuant to the provisions of Article 671 of this Law. The constituency electoral committee shall not alter than on the Friday preceding an election day transfer return envelopes to a post office.


6. Return envelopes, unused and damaged ballot papers of voters who voted on the Friday or Saturday preceding an election day, shall be transferred to the chairman of a polling district electoral committee before 9 pm of the same day. Having checked the received election papers, the polling district electoral committee shall decide whether or not voting at home has met the requirements of this Law.


7. Return envelopes shall be kept together with ballot papers.


8. Before starting to count the votes, return envelopes of voters who voted by post shall be put together with return envelopes of voters who voted at home, mixed and counted together according to Article 78 of this Law and in the same manner as the votes received by post.