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Article 74
 

74. (1) All members of the election committee shall sign the election records. The following items shall be bound in separate packages:

(i) the ballot papers not handed out;

(ii) the ballot papers returned in substitution;

(iii) the used blanks and other invalid ballot papers;

(iv) the valid ballot papers, with the personal votes for each candidate and the party votes for each party to be separately packaged; and

(v) the advance voting material.

(2) Each package shall be marked with its contents and sealed. The packages, the election records, poll books, poll cards and electoral registers shall be kept as specified in section 104.

(3) The chairman of the election committee shall send a copy of the election records complete with attachments, together with an unused ballot paper to the Minister for Social Welfare. The copy shall be confirmed by the chairman. The copy of the election records shall be received by the Minister for Social Welfare as far as possible not later than on the day after the recount of the votes. The Minister for Social Welfare determines the forwarding procedure for the election records complete with attachments and may also lay down to which extent and in which form the election records complete with attachments must be electronically submitted to the Minister for Social Welfare.


74a. (1) No candidate standing for a party in a multimember constituency is allowed to participate in counting the number of votes cast for the party concerned. No candidate standing as an independent candidate in a multimember constituency is allowed to participate in counting the number of votes cast for each independent candidate. No candidate standing for a party in a multimember constituency is allowed to participate in the tabulation of votes cast for the party reflecting the distribution between personal votes for each individual candidate and party votes, cf. section 73(3) and (4).