(1) As soon as a record of the course and results of the voting in the election district is signed, the chairperson of the district election commission or another authorised member of the district election commission shall immediately hand one counterpart, together with the results of the voting, where applicable, on a data medium over to the Czech Statistical Office through its temporary office located within the premises of the designated local authority.

(2) If the forwarded record of the course and results of the voting contains errors and the chairperson of the district election commission or another authorised member of the district election commission is entitled to make changes in the record of the course and results of the voting, all such errors shall be corrected on the spot. If the chairperson of the district election commission or another authorised member of the district election commission is not entitled to make changes or if materials located at polling station are necessary in order to correct such errors, the record of the course and results of the voting shall be rejected and an additional time limit for the correction of all errors and production of a new record of the course and results of the voting specified.

(3) After handing the record of the course and results of the voting over for further processing, the chairperson of the district election commission or another authorised member of the district election commission shall receive a written document in the form of a computer configuration confirming that the results of the voting in his/her election district have been forwarded for further processing without errors. The Czech Statistical Office shall also issue a directive stating that district election commission may end its session on the second day of the elections. The provisions of Article 77a shall remain unaffected.

(4) Should any district election commission fail to meet its obligations specified in Section 1 at the request of the Czech Statistical Office within 24 hours after the end of the voting (Article 22), or within the time limit specified in Section 2 herein, such an election district may be disqualified and not included in overall voting results. After the expiration of the said period the voting results achieved in such election district shall be disregarded.

(5) All returned ballot tickets and official envelopes, excerpts from permanent and special lists, one counterpart of the record of the course and results of the voting, all submitted electoral cards, confirmation of the acceptance of the voting results for further processing and all reports on the inspections carried out by regional or designated local authorities shall be sealed by the district election commission and handed over, together with all other election-related documents, to the local authority for safekeeping.