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Article 92
 

(1) After the closing of the polling station, the president, in the presence of the members of the electoral bureau and of the accredited persons, shall verify the integrity of the seals on the ballot boxes, seal the slot of the ballot boxes and put the “VOTED” stamps in an envelope sealed by affixing the control stamp of the polling station. The disappearance of one or several stamps shall be mentioned in the minutes referred to in Article 93.


(2) After conducting the operation referred to in paragraph (1), the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall annul the unused ballot papers and shall enter in the minutes, separately for each type of elections, the number of ballot papers annulled. If there are intact packs of ballot papers, the word “ANNULLED” shall be written only once on the respective pack and the control stamp shall be affixed only once.


(3) All the voters in the permanent and additional electoral lists having participated in the vote shall be counted and their number shall be entered in the specific columns in the minutes. The additional electoral lists shall be filed in the order of them being drawn up.


(4) For every type of elections, the used ballot papers, as they result from the voter lists, shall be added to the unused and annulled ballot papers. Their total, which should correspond to the number of ballot papers received by the polling station, shall be entered in the minutes. If their total is not equal with the number of ballot papers received, the reason for this error shall be mentioned in the minutes, while taking into account the objections and challenges addressed to the electoral bureau of the polling station as well.


(5) If the sum is not the correct one, the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station can have dissenting opinions. These shall be mentioned in the minutes.


(6) Once these operations are finished, the ballot boxes are opened. The opening of the ballot boxes is done successively. The next ballot box is opened only after the counting of the votes in the previous ballot box and the entering of its results in the minutes.


(7) The president shall read out loud, when opening each ballot paper, the name of the electoral competitor voted and (s)he shall show the ballot paper to those present.


(8) One of the members of the electoral bureau, assisted by at least another member thereof, shall write down the option resulting from reading each ballot paper on the standard form delivered by the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(9) Every ballot paper read and mentioned in the form shall be put, by the president, helped by the other members of the electoral bureau, in a separate pack for each electoral competitor.


(10) Separate packs shall be formed for the null ballot papers, the blank votes, as well as for the challenged ones.


(11) The ballot papers without the control stamp of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the ballot papers having a different model than the one legally approved, or those on which the stamp has been affixed on multiple quadrilaterals or outside them, shall be considered null. These shall not be counted as validly cast votes.


(12) If there are ballot papers for which the opinions are different in what concerns the validity of the vote, this shall be attributed to a candidate or shall be deemed null, depending on the opinion of the majority of the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station.


(13) Are deemed blank votes the ballot papers that do not have the “VOTED” stamp on them. These ballot papers shall not be counted as validly cast votes.