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Article 78
 

Concluding the polling day voting, and the preliminary counting of the votes After the chairperson or the deputy chairperson of the election committee has announced that the polling day voting has ended, the ballot papers are without delay to be taken from the ballot box and counted. Similarly, the number of the people that have used their right to vote during the polling day is counted, according to the entries made in the electoral roll or the voting register. After the ballot papers are counted, the election committee will check the ballot papers. The ballot papers that must be regarded as void are placed in their own group. The remaining ballot papers are sorted into groups so that the ballot papers for each candidate are placed in separate piles. The ballot papers in each group are counted (the preliminary counting of the votes). The election committee must finish the sorting and counting of the ballot papers without interruption. After the preliminary counting of the votes has been completed, the ballot papers, sorted as laid down in subsection 2, are placed in a durable container that is carefully sealed in a manner determined by the Ministry of Justice. The container is marked with the address of the recipient as referred to in section 81(1), the content of the consignment, and the sender.