(1) As soon as the provincial electoral authority has received all voting envelopes of electoral card voters sent by the district electoral authorities in accordance with § 89 al. 2 and as soon as after the notification according to § 88 it is certain that there will be no more such voting envelopes arriving, the number of voting envelopes delivered at the community and precinct electoral authorities within the area of the regional electoral authority shall be ascertained for each provincial constituency. The provincial electoral authority shall then sort out the voting envelopes of electoral card voters of its own provincial constituency.
(2) The provincial electoral authority shall notify the federal electoral authority immediately by the fastest means about the results ascertained in accordance with al. 1 (immediate notification). If a provincial constituency has not ascertained any such results due to no votes having been cast by electoral card voters, the respective notification shall also be made.
(3) Each provincial electoral authority shall sort the voting envelopes delivered by electoral card voters residing in other provincial constituencies by the eight other provincial constituencies and authenticate the ascertainments according to al. 1 in a separate written record. These written records shall be signed by the members of the provincial electoral authority and sent to the respective provincial electoral authorities by express registered letter in a sealed envelope together with the respective voting envelopes. A copy of this record shall be kept by the provincial electoral authority. Al. 2 second sentence applies accordingly.
