(1) After the closing 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 state of the seals on the ballot boxes, shall seal the slit of the ballot boxes, and shall introduce the stamps marked “VOTED” in an envelope which shall 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 materials received to the court of law within the jurisdiction of which the polling stations are based; b) he/she shall annul the unused ballot papers, by drawing the mark “ANNULLED” 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 mark “ANNULLED” shall be affixed only once on the respective package; the number of these ballot papers shall be registered under the column d) in the statement of poll provided for in paragraph (3);

c) he/she shall establish the number of voters entered on the copy of thepermanent 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 11 (17) and (18), Article 12 (14) and (15), and Article 47 (2). The result of the vote counting shall be recorded under point a1, and a2 respectively, in the sample of the statement of poll provided for in paragraph (3);

d) he/she shall establish the number of voters present in the poll by countingthe signatures entered on the electoral rolls found 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 inside them;

f)  there shall be considered annulled the ballot papers on which the controlstamp 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” has not been affixed 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 annulled ballot papers shall not be counted as validly cast votes.

(2) Upon opening of each ballot paper, the president shall read aloud theroll 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 according to political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, as well as according to organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities and independent candidates, and shall be counted and bound separately. The annulled votes, the rolls of candidates or the full name of independent candidates, and the validly cast votes for each one shall be recorded in a separate table by one member of the electoral bureau of the polling station, assigned by the president.

(3) After the opening of the ballot boxes and the 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 pollingstation that have 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 have come to the poll;

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

b3) the total number of voters entered on the additional electoral roll that have come to the poll;

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

d) the number of unused and annulled ballot papers;

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

f) the number of annulled votes;

g) the number of validly cast votes obtained by each roll 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 for the polling stations abroad;

i) the state of the seals on the ballot boxes at the closing 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 fromthe number of voters that have 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 annulled 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 electoralbureau 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 the signatures of some of the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall not affect the validity of the statement of poll. The president shall specify the reasons which prevented the signing.

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

(7) The members of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations shall beissued, upon request, a copy of the statement of poll, certified by all those who signed the original.

(8) Two copies of the statement of poll provided for 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 annulled 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 under 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 pollingstations 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 in 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 centralising the voting results.

(10) Within 24 hours of the receipt of the file provided for in paragraph (8),the county electoral bureau or, where appropriate, the Bucharest Municipality district electoral bureau shall send a copy of each statement of poll drawn up by the electoral bureaux of the polling stations to the tribunal within the jurisdiction of which its activity is based; the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad shall transmit one copy, 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 the independent candidates may receive copies of the samples of statements of poll stipulated in paragraph (10).