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Article 19(7)
 

(1) After the close of the voting room, the president, in the presence of the members of the electoral bureau, shall perform the operations of ballot paper counting and recording of the voting result, as follows:


a) he/she shall check the status of seals on the ballot boxes, shall seal the slit of the ballot boxes, and shall introduce the stamps with the specification “VOTED” in an envelope which will be sealed by affixing the control stamp of the polling station. The disappearance of one or several stamps shall be recorded in the statement of poll accompanying the handing over of the material received to the court of law under whose jurisdiction they are based;


b) he/she shall reject the unused ballot papers, by drawing the specification 36 “REJECTED” across the first page and by affixing the control stamp of the polling station; in the event there are packages with intact ballot papers, the specification “REJECTED” shall affix only once on the respective package; the number of these ballot papers shall be registered under the column d) in the statement of poll specified under paragraph (3);


c) he/she shall establish the number of voters included on the copy of the permanent electoral roll, and on the copy of the special electoral roll, respectively, received from the mayor of the territorial-administrative unit where the polling station is located; it is forbidden, under the sanction of the law that the rolls contain erasures, alterations or completions with the exceptions provided for in Article 9 (17) and (18), Article 91 (14) and (15), and ), Article 95 (2). The result of the ballot count shall be recorded under point a1 , and a2 respectively, in the sample of the statement of poll specified under paragraph (3);


d) he/she shall establish the number of voters present in the poll by counting the signatures registered on the existent electoral rolls at the polling station. The results shall be registered in the statement of poll under point b1 , b2 , and b3 , respectively, of the sample provided for in paragraph (3);


e) he/she shall unseal the ballot boxes one by one and shall count the votes found out in them;


f) there shall be considered rejected the ballot papers on which the control stamp of the polling station has not been affixed, the ballot papers with a different model than the duly approved one, the ballot papers on which the stamp “VOTED” or on which the stamp has been affixed on several quadrilaterals; the vote shall be valid when, although the affixed stamp exceeds the limits of the quadrilateral, the voter’s choice is obvious. The rejected ballot papers shall not be counted as validly cast votes.


(2) Upon opening of each ballot paper, the president shall read aloud the list of candidates which has been voted or, where appropriately, the full name of the voted independent candidate, and shall display the ballot paper to those present. The opened ballot papers shall be grouped on political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, as well as on organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, as well as on independent candidates, and shall be counted and bound separately. The rejected votes, the lists of candidates or the full name of independent candidates, and the validly cast votes for each one shall be recorded in a separate table each by one member each of the electoral bureau of the polling station, assigned by the president.


(3) After the opening of the ballot boxes and vote counting, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall conclude a statement of poll in 3 copies including:


a) the total number of voters entered on the copy of the permanent electoral roll and on the copy of the special electoral roll (point a = point a1 + point a2), of which: a1) the total number of voters entered on the copy of the permanent electoral roll (point a1 > point b1); a2) the total number of voters entered on the copy of the special electoral roll (point a2 > point b2);


b) the total number of voters entered on the electoral rolls existing at the polling station that has come to the poll (point b = point b1+ point b2 + point b3), of which: b1) the total number of voters entered on the copy of the permanent electoral roll that has come to the poll;


b2) the total number of voters entered on the copy of the special electoral roll that has come to vote;


b3) the total number of voters entered on the additional electoral roll that has 37 come to vote;


c) the number of ballot papers received (point c >/ = point d + point e + point f);


d) the number of unused and rejected ballot papers;


e) the number of validly cast ballots (point e</ point b – point f, point e = sum of validly cast ballots under point g);


f) the number of rejected ballots;


g) the number of validly cast ballots obtained by each list of candidates or by each independent candidate;


h) the report on the objections and contestations submitted to the county electoral bureau, to the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureau or to the electoral bureau of the polling stations abroad;


i) the state of seals on the ballot boxes on close of voting.


(4) At point h) of the statement of poll, there shall also be recorded the situations when:


a) the number of the ballot papers found in the ballot box is different from the number of electors that has voted, after the counting of signatures on the permanent, additional, and special rolls;


b) the number of the ballot papers found in the ballot box added up with that of the unused and rejected ballot papers is different from the total number of the ballot papers received.


(5) The statement of poll shall be signed up by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, as well as by the other members thereof, and shall bear the control stamp of the electoral bureau. The absence of signature of some of the members the electoral bureau of the polling station shall not incur upon the validity of the statement of poll. The president shall record the reasons which have prevented the signing.


(6) A copy of the statement of poll shall be displayed in a visible place at the premises of the electoral bureau of the polling station.


(7) The members of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall be issued, upon request, a copy of the statement of poll, certified by all those who signed in the original.


(8) Two copies of the statement of poll referred to in paragraph (3), together with all the objections and contestations with reference to the electoral operations of the electoral bureau of the polling station, the rejected and disputed ballot papers, as well as the used electoral rolls shall constitute a stamped and sealed file. Within 24 hours of the closing of voting, the file shall be submitted to the county electoral bureau or, where appropriate, to the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureau on military watch, accompanied upon request by other members of the respective electoral bureau.


(9) The statements of poll, drawn up by the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad, together with all the objections and contestations with reference to the electoral operations of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall be transmitted electronically to the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad through the good office of the diplomatic missions and consulates, within 24 hours of their receipt. The accuracy of the data of these statements of poll shall be confirmed by telephone by the president or deputy of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, who countersigns and stamps the received documents. The countersigned statements of poll shall be used in centralizing the voting results.


(10) Within 24 hours of the receipt of the file referred to in paragraph (8), the county electoral bureau or, where appropriate, the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureau shall sent a copy each for every statement of poll drawn up by the 38 electoral bureaux of the polling stations within the jurisdiction of the tribunal where its activity is based; the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall transmit one copy each, countersigned and stamped, of each statement of poll drawn up by the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad to the Bucharest Tribunal.


(11) The political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances or electoral alliances thereof, as well as independent candidates may receive copies of the samples of statements of poll stipulated in paragraph (10).*


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* Introduced by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.