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Article 95
 

(1) The constituency electoral bureau shall draw up, separately for the Senate and for the Chamber of Deputies, the minutes concerning all the electoral operations, the centralisation of the votes, the ascertaining of the result of the vote and the allotment of the mandates.


(2) The minutes shall comprise:


a) the total number of voters included in the electoral lists of the electoral constituency, in application of the formula: point a = point a1 + point a2;


a1) the total number of voters according to the permanent electoral lists, in application of the formula: point a1 > point b1;


a2) the total number of voters according to the additional electoral lists, in application of the formula: point a2 > point b2;


b) the total number of voters included in the electoral lists of the electoral constituency, 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 lists;


b2) the total number of voters present for the vote, included in the additional electoral lists;


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 list of candidates and independent candidate;


i) the presentation of the way in which the mandates have been allotted, according to Article 94, the first and last names of the elected candidates, as well as, where appropriate, the political party, political alliance or electoral alliance having proposed them;


j) the mandates that could not be allotted at the level of the electoral constituency, as well as the validly cast votes to be counted, according to Article 94, at national level;


k) a brief account of the objections, challenges and decrees issued by the constituency electoral bureau. (2^1) The minutes drawn up by the constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad shall include, besides the elements referred to in paragraph


(2), the following data:


a) the total number of voters, according to the electoral lists for the postal voting;


b) the total number of voters having voted by post, registered on the electoral lists for the postal voting;


c) the number of outer envelopes dispatched;


d) the number of outer or inner envelopes annulled.


(3) The minutes, together with the objections, challenges and the minutes received from the electoral bureaus of the polling stations and the electoral offices, where appropriate, that form a file, drawn up, sealed, stamped and signed by the members of the electoral bureau, shall be remitted, under escort by the staff of the Ministry of Interior, to the Central Electoral Bureau, within 48 hours, at the most, from receiving the notification of the Central Electoral Bureau concerning the distribution, by electoral constituencies, of the mandates allotted in a centralised manner at national level.


(4) The ballot papers used must be kept in absolute security, packed, sealed and labelled, by polling stations, at the constituency electoral bureaus and at the premises of the diplomatic missions, respectively of the consular offices, until the date of publication of the results of the elections in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.