– (1) After the receipt of the statements of poll from all the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, and after the settling of the objections and contestations received, the county electoral bureaux, the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureau or the electoral bureaux of the polling stations abroad shall conclude a statement of poll centralizing the items included in the statements of poll of the polling stations, as follows:

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

b) the total number of voters entered on the electoral rolls 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 rolls that has come to vote; b3) the total number of voters entered on the additional electoral rolls that have 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 modality of settling the objections and contestations received.

(2) The provisions of Article 197 (5) and (7) shall apply accordingly.

(3) The statement of poll referred to in paragraph (1), together with the statements of poll received from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, as well as with all the objections and contestations, making up a sealed file, stamped and signed by the members of the county electoral bureau, of the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureau or of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, shall be submitted under military watch to the Central Electoral Bureau within 48 hours at the most of the receipt of the latest statement of poll from the electoral bureaux of the polling stations.*

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