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Article 79
 

The election record The election committee must appoint one of its members to keep an election record, in which the following is marked: the date and the times at which the election commenced and was declared ended; the members of the election committee who were present;  election assistants and assistants chosen by the voters themselves;  the number of persons who voted;  the total number of the ballots given and their number in each of the groups that they have been sorted into according to section 78 (2);  the date and the time at which the ballots were enclosed in the container;  the party representatives of constituency associations and joint lists or persons authorised by them that were present when the ballots were sorted and counted, and other persons who were present and had a right to be so; in small voting districts, where information required in paragraph 5 is not marked, information on the observance of the procedure guaranteeing the secrecy of the ballot required in section 82. Those members of the central election committee of the municipality that have delivered ballot envelopes to the polling station according to what is laid down in section 82 are also entered in the election record, as well as the number of the ballots they delivered and put in the ballot box. The letters of authorisation which have been submitted to the election committee concerning the persons referred to in subsection 1(7) who have been authorised by the election representatives are to be attached to the election record Finally, the election record is read aloud, checked, and signed by the chairperson or the deputy chairperson of the election committee and at least one other member of the election committee, and closed with the attachments in a container which is marked with the address of the recipient,as referred to in section 81(1) or section 82(2), the content of the consignment, and the sender.