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Article 74
 

1. Based on the voting results minutes prepared by the Precinct Election Commissions including those transferred via technical channels from the Precinct Election Commissions arranged at voting stations on boards the ships being at sea, at polar stations, in hard-to-reach areas or remote localities or outside the Russian Federation, the Territorial Election Commission, after preliminary check out whether the minutes have been drawn up properly (not later than three days after the voting date) shall determine voting results received in the relevant territory by way of summarizing all data contained therein. Summarization of the data contained in the minutes of the Precinct Election Commissions on voting results shall be directly performed by members of the Territorial Election Commission having the right of casting vote. The persons specified in clause 5 of article 23 of this Federal Law may be present during this summarizing process.


2. Acceptance of voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commissions, summarization of the data contained therein and drawing up the minutes of voting results obtained in the relevant territory shall be performed in one premise, at that all actions of the members of the Territorial Election Commission connected with acceptance of voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commissions, summarization of the data contained therein and drawing up the minutes of voting results received in the relevant territory shall be performed within sight of the Territorial Election Commission, observers and other persons set forth in clause 5 of article 23 of this Federal Law. There shall be an oversize summary table of the Territorial Election Commission in the relevant territory, in which, immediately after arrival of a chairman, secretary or any other member of the Precinct Election Commission having the right of casting vote and first copy of the voting results minutes, these minutes data are to be entered and the time of their entry is to be filled in.


3. The chairman, secretary or any other member of the Precinct Election Commission having the right of casting vote shall transfer the first copy of the voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commission with documents attached thereto to a member of the Precinct Election Commission having the right of casting vote, that is to verify whether the minutes has been properly drawn up and the documents attached thereto are complete. If the Territorial Election Commission has the State Automation System “Vybory” (SAS “Vybory”), the minutes data shall be immediately entered into it, with verification of control correlation of the data entered into the said minutes. If technical errors are found after the minutes data have been entered into the SAS “Vybory, corrective data shall be entered into the SAS “Vybory” based on the substantiated decision of the Territorial Election Commission. If the SAS “Vybory” is not used, control correlation shall be performed by a member of the Territorial Election Commission that is responsible for check out whether the minutes have been drawn up properly. (as amended by Federal Laws No. 93-FZ, as of July 21, 2005, No. 64-FZ as of April 26)


4. If the vote results minutes of the Precinct Election Commission is prepared with non-compliance with the requirements of this Federal Law, to the minutes drawing up, the Precinct Election Commissions shall draw up a repeated minutes in accordance with the requirements of clause 31 of article 73 of this Federal Law, and the minutes submitted at first time shall be kept in a superior Election Commission.


5. If the voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commission is drawn up in compliance with the requirements of this Federal Law to the minutes drawing up procedure, a member of the Territorial Election Commission shall enter this minutes data into the summary table of the Territorial Election Commission. The chairman, secretary or another member of the Precinct Election Commission having the right of casting vote, that submitted the voting results minutes to the Territorial Election Commission is to sign an oversize form of the summary table of the Territorial Election Commission below the data of the the Precinct Election Commission’s voting results minutes.


6. The data of the voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commissions shall be placed in the Internet sites by the Election Commissions of the subjects of the Russian Federation as far as they are entered into the SAS ‘Vybory”, but not later than a day after a polling day (as for the minutes marked "Repeated" or "Votes recounted" — not later than a day after drawing up the relevant minutes), and shall remain placed on these sites for a period of a year as from the day of official publication of the Russian Federation presidential election results (clause 6 as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)


7. Following the results of elections the Territorial Election Commission shall finalize its decision on voting results by drawing up the voting results minutes, where the following data are to be entered into: (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)


1) number of Precinct Election Commissions arranged in the relevant territory;
2) number of voting results minutes received from the Precinct Election Commissions on the basis of which the voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission is to be drawn up;
2.1) number of election precincts, voting results of which were declared invalid, and a total number of electors on the lists of electors attended such election precincts by the close of election; (clause 2.1 is introduced by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)
3) data summarized in accordance to all lines of the voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commissions and set out in clauses 2 and 3 of article 72 of this Federal Law;
4) number of absentee certificates received by the Territorial Election Commission, number of absentee certificates issued to the subordinated Precinct Election Commissions, number of unused absentee certificates, remained in the Territorial Election Commission (in case of repeat voting — number of unused absentee certificates invalidated by the Territorial Election Commission), number of absentee certificates lost by the Territorial Election Commission).
(clause 4 is introduced by Federal Law No. 263-FZ as of October 4, 2010)


8. To sign the voting results minutes the Territorial Election Commission shall hold a close-out meeting, at which the complaints (statements) received by the Commission and concerning elections, vote count and drawing up voting results minutes by the subordinated Election Commissions shall be examined. After this the Territorial Election Commission shall sign the voting results minutes and issue its certified copies to the persons set forth in clause 5 of article 23 of this Federal Law. The voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission shall be drawn up in two copies and signed by all present members of the Territorial Election Commission having the right of casting vote, and the date and time (hour and minutes) of its signing shall be filled therein. Violation of the
minutes signing procedure shall be deemed to be the grounds for declaration of this minutes invalid. The member of the Territorial Election Commission having the right of casting vote that objects to the entire minutes or particular provisions thereof may attach a dissenting opinion to the minutes, whereof the relevant note shall be made in the minutes. (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005).


9. The following shall be appended to the minutes:
1) summary table with voting results obtained in the relevant territory, that contains complete data of all voting results minutes received from the Precinct Election Commissions;
2) deeds of issue of ballots by the Territorial Election Commission to the Precinct Election Commissions, deeds of invalidation of unused ballots including ballots kept in the Territorial Election Commission; (clause 2 as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)
3) deeds of issue of absentee certificates by the Territorial Election Commission to electors and to the Precinct Election Commissions, and deeds of invalidation of unused absentee certificates (in case of repeat voting) with an indication of these certificates dates and numbers. (as amended by Federal Law No. 263-FZ as of October 4, 2010)


10. Summary table and deeds shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the Territorial Election Commission.


11. Dissenting opinions of the members of the Territorial Election Commission having the right of casting vote as well as complaints (statements) against violation of this Federal Law received by the said Commission in the period between a polling day and a day on which the voting minutes are drawn up by the Territorial Election Commission shall be appended to the first copy of the voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission along with the decisions made by the Territorial Election Commission on the mentioned complaints (statements). Certified copies of dissenting opinions, complaints (statements) and decisions of the Territorial Election Commission shall be appended to the second copy of the minutes.


12. The first copy of the voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission signed by all present members of the Territorial Election Commission having the right of casting vote shall be immediately transferred to the Election Commission of the subject of the Russian Federation together with the documents and minutes of the Precinct Election Commissions attached thereto, and the minutes of the Territorial Election Commission arranged in accordance with clause 3 of article 14 of this Federal Law shall be directed to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and shall not be a subject to return to the Territorial Election Commission.


13. The second copy of the voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission, second copies of the summary table and deeds set forth in clause 9 of this article shall be submitted to members of the Territorial Election Commission and subordinated Election Commissions having the right of consultative vote, persons set forth in clause 5 of article 23 of this Federal Law and their certified copies shall be put up for general public in place determined by the Territorial Election Commission. (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)


14. The second copy of the voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission along with second copies of the summary table and deeds set forth in clause 9 of this article, and lists of members of the Election Commission having the right of consultative vote and lists of persons specified in clause 5 of article 23 of this Federal Law, that were present at determination of voting results and drawing up the minutes shall be kept in files of the secretary of the Territorial Election Commission. (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)


15. If, after signing of the voting results minutes of the Territorial Election Commission and (or) summary table of voting results and direction of their first copies to the Election Commission of the subject of the Russian Federation, the Territorial Election Commission, that has drawn up the minutes and summary table, or the Election Commission of the subject of the Russian Federation finds out any discrepancy therein during preliminary check out (including slips of pen, misprints or any other error in composition of the minutes data of the Precinct Election Commissions), it shall examine the question of emendation of the minutes and (or) summary table at its meeting. The Territorial Election Commission informing of the said meeting arrangement in accordance with clause 2 of article 23 of this Federal Law shall indicate that this question will be examined during such meeting. The Territorial Election Commission is obliged to inform its members having the right of consultative vote, observers and other persons being present at drawing up the approved minutes as well as mass media representatives of the decision made. In this case the Territorial Election Commission shall draw up the voting results minutes and (or) summary table marked: "Repeated". The said minutes and (or) summary table shall be immediately directed to the superior Election Commission. The minutes and (or) summary table directed to the superior Election Commission shall be appended to the repeated minutes and (or) summary table. Violation of the said procedure for drawing up the repeated minutes and (or) repeated summary table shall be deemed to be the grounds for declaration of the repeated minutes invalid. (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)


16. In case errors, discrepancies are fount out in the voting results minutes or doubts arise whether the minutes received from the Precinct Election Commission has been properly drawn up, the territorial Election Commission may make a decision on electors votes to be recount by the Precinct Election Commission or on independent electors votes recount in the relevant territory both during preliminary check out whether the minutes has been drawn up properly and after acceptance of the voting results minutes of the Precinct Election Commission. The said vote recount can be performed until the Territorial Election Commission has determined voting results and drawn up the voting results minutes. (as amended by Federal Law No. 93-FZ as of July 21, 2005)


17. Electors vote recount shall be performed in the presence of a member (members) of the Territorial Election Commission having the right of casting vote by the Election Commission, that has drawn up and approved the minutes to be further checked or by the Election Commission that has made a decision on electors vote recount. The Election Commission providing for electors vote recount shall inform of it the members of the relevant Precinct Election Commission, registered candidates or their authorized representatives and other persons set forth in clause 2 of article 23 of this Federal Law, that have the right to be present at electors vote recount. Following the results of electors vote recount the Election Commission that carried out such recount shall draw up the voting results minutes marked: "Votes recounted". Prepared and certified copies of this minutes shall be issued to observers, other persons set forth in clause 5 of article 23 of this Federal Law. If the minutes is drawn up by the Precinct Election Commission it shall be immediately directed to the Territorial Election Commission. Voting results minutes drawn up by the Precinct Election Commission earlier shall be appended to this minutes. Violation of the said procedure for drawing up the voting results minutes marked: “Votes recounted” shall be deemed to be the grounds for declaration of the minutes invalid.
Provisions of article 75 as amended by Federal Law No. 263-FZ as of October 4, 2010 shall apply to legal relationships arising out of elections and referendums called after the mentioned Federal Law has entered into force (part 4 of article 6 of Federal Law No. 263-FZ as of October 4, 2010).