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Article 93
 

(1) The results shall be entered in different tables and the minutes shall be drawn up, in two original copies.


(2) The minutes shall comprise:


a) the total number of voters included in the electoral lists existing at the polling station, in application of the formula: point a = point a1 + point a2;
a1) the total number of voters according to the permanent electoral list, in application of the formula: point a1 > point b1; a2) the total number of voters according to the additional electoral list, in application of the formula: point a2 > point b2;
b) the total number of voters included in the electoral lists existing at the polling station, present for the vote, in application of the formula: point b = point b1 + point b2;
b1) the total number of voters present for the vote, included in the permanent electoral list;
b2) the total number of voters present for the vote, included in the additional electoral list;
c) the number of ballot papers received, in application of the formula: point c > point d +point e + point f + point g; d) the number of ballot papers unused and annulled; e) the total number of validly cast votes, in application of the formula: point e < [point b – (point f + point g)]; point e = the total number of validly cast votes expressed in point h;
f) the number of null votes; g) the number of blank votes;
h) the number of validly cast votes, obtained by each electoral competitor;
i) the number of challenged votes;
j) a brief account of the objections, challenges lodged and their solutions, as well as of the challenges filed with the constituency electoral bureau;
k) the integrity of the ballot box seals at the end of the voting.


(3) The minutes shall be signed by the president, by his/her alternate and by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station and shall bear the control stamp thereof.


(4) The absence of the signatures of some members of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall have no influence on the validity of the minutes. The president shall mention the reasons that prevented the signing thereof.


(5) Every member of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall be entitled to a copy of the minutes, signed by the president of the polling station or his/her alternate, where appropriate and by the other members of the bureau.


(6) During the voting operations and the opening of the ballot boxes, objections and challenges can be submitted in relation to these operations. These shall be settled on the spot by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station.


(7) The challenges shall be presented to the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station. They shall be done in writing in two copies, of which one, signed and stamped by the president, shall be kept by the dissenter.


(8) The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall adjudicate, forthwith, on urgent challenges.


(9) Separately for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, a file shall be prepared, comprising: the minutes, in two original copies, the challenges concerning the electoral operations of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the null ballot papers and the ones challenged, the ballot papers used and unchallenged, the standard forms used to calculate the results, as well as the electoral lists used in the polling station, filed by types of lists. The files, sealed and stamped, accompanied by the electoral lists used at the respective polling station, shall be remitted to the constituency electoral bureau, respectively to the electoral office, within 24 hours, at the most, from the closing of the vote, by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, under military escort and accompanied, upon request, by the representatives of the political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities in the electoral bureau of the polling station, the candidates or the persons accredited under this law.


(10) The presidents of the electoral bureaus of the polling stations shall remit the files prepared according to the provisions of paragraph (9) at:


a) the premises of the constituency electoral bureaus, in the case of the polling stations set up in the counties;
b) the premises of the electoral office of the sector in which they operated, in the case of the polling stations set up in the Municipality of Bucharest;
c) the premises of Romania’s diplomatic missions and consular offices in the country in which they have been set up.


(11) The minutes drawn up by the electoral bureaus of the polling stations set up abroad, signed by the president and the members present, accompanied by the challenges, shall be sent, by electronic means, to the electoral bureau of the electoral constituency for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad, by the president of the electoral bureau. The accuracy of the data in these minutes shall be confirmed by telephone to the president of the constituency electoral bureau or to his/her alternate, who shall countersign and stamp the documents received, by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station abroad. The minutes countersigned shall be taken into consideration for the centralisation of the results of the vote.


(12) The electoral bureaus of the polling stations set up abroad shall draw up, separately for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, a file comprising: the minutes, in two original copies, the challenges concerning the electoral operations of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the null ballot papers and the ones challenged, the standard forms used to calculate the results, as well as the electoral lists used in the polling station, filed by types of lists. The files, sealed and stamped, accompanied by the electoral lists used at the respective polling station, shall be remitted, with the logistic support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based on a report, to the constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad, and, if this has ceased its activity, to the Bucharest County Court. The used ballot papers and the ones unchallenged, the ballot papers annulled and unused, the stamps and the other materials necessary to the vote shall be remitted, based on a report, to the diplomatic mission or consular office.