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Article 91
 

Declaration of the Election Invalid


1. If a party or a candidate grossly violated paragraph 1 of Article 51 of this Law and such violation has been established or committed later or the Central Electoral Commission has taken a decision later as laid down in paragraph 6 of Article 39 of this Law, the Central Electoral Commission shall take a decision on the revocation of the list of candidates or cancellation of the registration of the candidate after the election day, but not later than until the proclamation of the final election results. Upon the revocation of the announcement of a list of candidates, the votes cast for the list of candidates, and in the case of the cancelation of the registration of a candidate – the election rating votes cast for the candidate or the votes cast by voters for the candidate for Seimas members, shall be deemed invalid. After the votes are deemed invalid, it shall be decided whether to deem the election invalid in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Article.


2. The Central Electoral Commission may declare the election results in the constituency null and void, if it has established that severe violations of paragraph 1 of Article 51 of this Law or other laws which were committed in the constituency or polling district, the falsification of documents or the loss thereof had an essential influence on the election results, and the following essential results cannot be determined from the vote counting records or other election documents:
1) in a single-member constituency - the candidate who gets a mandate or the candidates who participate in the run-off voting;
2) in the multi-member constituency - the lists of candidates which take part in the distribution of mandates, or the number of mandates due to the list of candidates can be determined at the exactness of only more than one mandate.


3. The election cannot be declared invalid if the indisputably determined election results allow to determine essential election results.