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Article 17
 

(1) After the closing of the operations referred to in Article 16, the electoral bureau for postal voting shall enter the result of the postal vote in the minutes, for each type of ballot, drawn up in two original copies, including:


a) the total number of voters assigned;


b) the total number of outer envelopes received from the voters, of which:


b1) the total number of outer envelopes valid;


b2) the total number of outer envelopes null;


c) the total number of inner envelopes, of which:


c1) the total number of inner envelopes valid;


c2) the total number of inner envelopes null;


d) the total number of votes, of which:


d1) the number of validly cast votes;


d2) the number of votes null;


e) the number of validly cast votes obtained by every candidate or list of candidates;


f) the number of votes challenged;


g) a brief account of the objections, challenges lodged and their solutions, as well as of the challenges filed with the hierarchically superior electoral bureau.


(2) The minutes signed by the president, his/her alternate, as well as by the members of the electoral bureau for postal voting, bearing its control stamp, shall be remitted to the constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad, within 24 hours, at the most, from the voting date.


(3) The constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad shall ensure the centralisation of the data referred to in paragraph (1) and their entry in the minutes concerning the registration and centralisation of the results of the vote, which they draw up according to the legal provisions applicable.


(4) The constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad shall remit to the Central Electoral Bureau an original copy of the minutes referred to in paragraph (2) within 24 hours, at the most, from the expiry of the deadline referred to in paragraph (2).


(5) The minutes referred to in paragraph (1) shall be published on the Central Electoral Bureau’s Website, within 24 hours, at the most, from their receipt, according to paragraph (4).