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Article 68
 

Keeping of the Records of Voters who Have Voted by Postal Envelopes and Counting of their Votes



1. After the counting the ballots from the ballot box, postal votes and votes cast by envelopes shall be counted in the following way:
1) the PEC chairperson presents unopened postal vote covering envelopes, i.e. the covering envelopes of voters of this precinct who voted at home, as well as the covering envelopes of voters who voted in advance and whose covering envelopes were received from the MEC. The number of the said postal vote covering envelopes shall be announced and entered in the PEC results protocol.
2) covering envelopes are opened one at a time;
3) a Voter card is taken out of the covering envelope, the voter’s surname and the number of the Voter card are read aloud, these data are checked against the Voter list for Precinct, and in the precincts which are connected to the electronic voter list - against the data of the said voter list. The ballot envelope shall be stamped with the PEC stamp. If the person indicated in Voter card in the covering envelope is not on the Voter list for Precinct or if the voter has already signed such voter list indicating that s/he has already voted in the polling station, or if it is indicated in the voter list that the consent was given for that person to vote in another polling station, or if another postal vote covering envelope has been received from the same voter, if there is no Voter card or there is more than one Voter card in the covering envelope, or if there is more than one ballot envelope in the covering envelope, such covering envelope shall be considered inappropriate. The seal shall not be affixed on the ballot envelope (envelopes) enclosed in the postal vote counting envelope which is recognised invalid, the ballot envelope shall be crossed through, left unopened, the word “Inappropriate for stamping” shall be written down on it and the reason for recognising the envelope as invalid shall be indicated. The content of the invalid envelopes shall not be taken into account in the PEC results protocol, however, the number of such envelopes shall be entered;
4) in the Voter list for Precinct, the words "balsavo paštu" (postal voting) or “BP” are written by the surname of the voter whose vote has been received by post and at home, while in the electronic Voter list in the polling stations connected to the electronic voter list it is indicated that a voter has voted;
5) the sealed ballot envelope is cast into the ballot box prepared and sealed according to the established requirements;
6) when all envelopes received by post and at home have been inspected, the ballot box is opened and the sealed ballot envelopes are opened. If there is more than one ballot in the ballot envelope, all the ballots in the envelope shall be considered invalid. The votes received by post shall be further counted according to the requirements of Article 72 of this Law.



2. If only one sealed ballot envelope is in the precinct (commission), it, in order to protect the secrecy of voting, shall not be opened and shall be handed over to the higher level MEC, which shall enter the results of the voting in its results protocol.