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Article 82
 

Guaranteeing secrecy of the ballot in small voting districts   If the voting district has, according to section 63, less than 50 approved ballot envelopes or if it can be estimated with good reason that less than 50 people will vote in the voting district on the polling day, the central election committee of the municipality must order that the advance votes and the polling day votes are counted together. On such occasions the election committee will not perform the preliminary counting of the votes, but delivers the ballot papers to the central election committee of the municipality for preliminary counting.   If it can, with good reason, be estimated that within the voting district less than 50 people together will vote in advance and on polling day, or if guaranteeing the secrecy of the ballot with good reason this requires, the central election committee of the municipality must in good time before the polling day order, and in elections other that municipal elections, inform the electoral district committee that the advance votes and polling day votes of the voting district and the advance votes and polling day votes of another voting district or of some other voting districts will be counted together. On such occasions the election committees of the voting districts in question will not perform the preliminary counting of the votes but deliver the ballot papers to the central election committee of the municipality for preliminary counting.   The election committee of a voting district referred to in subsection 1 and the election committees of the voting districts referred to in subsection 2 must, after the ballot papers have been taken out of the ballot box, with the secrecy of the ballot having been maintained, and counted, enclose the ballot papers in a durable container in a manner determined by the Ministry of Justice. The address of the central election committee of the municipality, the content of the consignment and the sender must be marked on the container. The consignment must be delivered to the central election committee without delay.   The central election committee of the municipality must open the ballot envelopes of the voting districts referred to in subsections 1 and 2, and combine the ballot papers in them with the votes cast in these election districts on the polling day, and in addition mix the ballot papers of the voting districts referred to in subsection 2 together. The central election committee will perform the preliminary counting of these votes by complying with what is provided in section 78 where applicable. In elections other than Municipal electionsthe central election committee of the municipality will after this deliver the ballots, the record of the meeting of the central election committee, and the election records of the election committees to the electoral district committee, complying with what is provided in section 64(1) where applicable.   Regardless of what has been laid down above in this section, the advance votes and polling day votes of the voting district referred to in subsection 1, may alternatively, on the decision of the central election committee of the municipality, be counted together so that the chaiman or the vice-chairman and one other member of the central election committee, on polling day before the completion of the election procedure, take the approved ballot envelopes containing the advance votes to the polling station of the voting district and in the presence on the election committee open them and put the ballot papers, while guaranteeing also the secrecy of the ballot, into the ballot box.