Arrangement and announcement of ballot result minute book
(Change: 8/4/2010-5980/23 art.)
Ballot box committee arranges two copies of ballot result minute books prepared separately for each types of elections based on the results of counting and tabulating calendars. After information related with all types of elections are issued completely on minute books, names and surnames of presidents and members are written and minute books are signed and sealed with seal of ballot box committee.
According to the clause above, here are the information that should be issued:
- Name of the province, district and electoral environment that the ballot includes and number of the ballot.
- Date and day of voting.
- Opening hour and minute of the ballot before the members of the board, if the ballot is opened before 17.00, its reasons.
- The numbers of voters who were present at the ending time of the elections and allowed to vote after 17.00.
- Total number of envelopes taken from District Election Board and the number of remaining envelopes.
- Total number of ballot papers taken from District Election Boards and total number of remaining ballot papers.
- Number of voters written in ballot electoral lists.
- Number of voters that are not registered on ballot voter list but are allowed to exercise their voting right at that ballot due to Law.
- Number of total voters that use their votes.
- Number of envelopes taken out of envelope.
- Number of valid envelopes.
- Number of invalid envelopes and their reasons of invalidity.
- In case the number of envelopes are more than the number of voters who exercised voting, the numbers of burned envelopes to achieve equality.
- In municipal elections, in case there is missing ballot paper in the envelope, the information which type of election the missing ballot paper belongs to and their numbers.
- The number of empty envelopes which do not include and ballot papers.
- The number of ballot papers which are considered valid without objection.
- The total of ballot papers which are considered valid or included into calculation upon objection.
- Total of valid ballot papers.
- The number of ballot papers which are considered invalid and their reasons of invalidity.
- Number of ballot papers that are not included into counting and their reasons.
- Total of ballot papers that are considered invalid or not included into accounting.
- Amount of total valid votes taken by political parties and independent candidates in numbers and letters.
- Complaints related with voting works and transactions and counting and tabulating of votes and decisions related with these complaints.
- If counting and tabulating are undertaken more than once, their numbers.
- The results of counting and tabulating are announced by the president of the board.
One approved copy of the ballot result minute book, is hang by the president around ballot environment where everyone can see. These minute books stay for one week beginning with the date of elections.
After being signed and sealed, one copy of ballot result minute book, upon request, is delivered to observers of political parties and independent candidates attending to the elections in such electoral environment. These minute books, upon their request, are given primarily to the members of the board from political parties. But in such case, copy of the minute books are not delivered to observers of such political parties. Ballot result minute books that are prepared for observers of political parties, are prepared in multi-paper copy form. Names and surnames of the observers of political parties and independent candidates who are delivered ballot result minute books, are written on ballot box committee minute books and their signatures are taken.
To each ballot box committees, ballot result minute books in number of five more of the total numbers of political parties and independent candidates, are delivered. Methods and principles related with preparation of these minutes are determined by Supreme Election Council.
