Home > 2.1.4 Others > PORTUGAL - Law Governing Elections to the Assembly of the Republic
 
 
 
Download file    
 
 
Article 106
 

Operations of the stations for collating and counting the votes


1 - The stations for collating and counting the votes of electors residing abroad begin their work at 9 am on the tenth day after the election in a venue provided by the electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration.
2 - The electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration shall arrange for the white envelopes sent by that date to be grouped by the consular office and consular section where the registration was conducted, and handed over to the presiding officer of the respective polling station.
3 - The electoral administration of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration shall also provide for the minutes and voting slips referred to in Article 101-A(2) of this minute be handed over to the presiding officer of the polling station.
4 - The presiding officers of the polling stations will deliver the bundles of white envelopes to the tellers, who that the elector has voted and initial the electoral rolls in the column intended for that purpose and on the line corresponding to the elector.
5 - Next, the presiding officers of the polling stations have the voters counted for the records entered in the electoral rolls.
6 - When this count has been completed, the presiding officers of the polling stations have the white envelopes counted, which are immediately destroyed.
7 - Once the white envelopes have been destroyed, the presiding officers of the polling stations order the green envelopes to be opened in order to check the number of voting slips collected.
8 - The provisions of Articles 101 to 106 of this law are then followed, mutatis mutandis.