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Article 84
 

(1) If the time fixed for the act of voting has lapsed and all voters, who appeared before that in the polling station or in the waiting lounge determined by the electoral authority, have cast their vote, the electoral authority shall declare that the voting procedure is closed. After closing the voting procedure the polling station shall be closed, in which only the members of the electoral authority, their auxiliary personnel, the persons of trust according to § 15 al. 4, and the election witnesses may stay.

(2) The electoral authority shall first ascertain how many official ballots were handed out in total, taking into account the possible additional notes in the ballot register, and shall examine whether this number taken together with the remaining rest not handed out makes up the number of official ballots received before the act of voting.

(3) The electoral authority shall then count and pack the voting envelopes of the electoral card voters of other regional constituencies, being in a special box. The envelope shall be firmly closed and marked with a seal. On the envelope the number of the unopened voting envelopes contained therein shall be indicated. Subsequently the electoral authority shall well shuffle the voting envelopes in the ballot box, empty the ballot box, and ascertain:



the number of the voting envelopes cast by the voters;



the number of voters listed in the ballot register;



the presumable reason, if the number of a) plus the number of the voting envelopes of the electoral card voters from other regional constituencies does not correspond to the number of b).



(4) The electoral authority shall then open the voting envelopes cast by the voters of other regional constituencies, take out the ballots, examine their validity, mark the invalid ballots with the current number, and ascertain:



the total sum of the valid and invalid votes cast;



the sum of the invalid votes cast;



the sum of the valid votes cast;



the valid votes cast for the respective parties (totals for each party).



(5) The ascertainment made according to al. 4 and the number of voting envelopes cast by electoral card voters of other regional constituencies shall immediately be authenticated in a report (§ 85) and notified to the community electoral authority in the communities outside of Vienna being partitioned in precincts, and to the district electoral authority in the other communities and in Vienna, in the fastest way available (immediate notification). If no votes were cast by electoral card voters of other regional constituencies, this shall be expressly noted down.