§ 1. The voting protocol shall be transmitted as follows:

1) to the representative referred to in Article. 173, designated by the competent election commission of higher rank; in the elections to the Sejm and the Senate, the election of the President of the Republic and in the elections to the European Parliament;

2) to the - municipal election commission; in elections to the municipal council and mayor elections;

3) to the county election commission.; in the elections for district council and the regional council region

§ 2. The representative referred to in § 1 item 1, checks for compliance to determine the correctness of the arithmetic results of the vote in the precinct and confirms the correctness of precinct election commission for determining the results the set of results or shows the incompatibility of the arithmetic data in the protocol, which precinct election commission for determining the results is obliged to explain and appropriately improve and make public the corrected result as per the procedure specified in Article 77.

§ 3. Election commissions referred to in § 1 point 2 and 3, check for compliance to determine the correctness of the arithmetic results of the vote in the precinct. In the case it finds inconsistencies in the protocol data arithmetic, the precinct election commission for determining the results is obliged to explain and improve, and make public the corrected result as per the procedure specified in Art. 77.

§ 4. The manner of transmission and reception and the treatment of the protocol, referred to in § 1, is defined by the National Election Commission.