Delivery of the Tally Sheet, Recording Technical Device and the Rest of the Papers to the Central Election Commission

(1) The chairperson or the deputy chairperson, the secretary and a member of the regional election commission, nominated by different parties and coalitions of parties, shall deliver to the Central Election Commission the copy of the tally sheet of the regional election commission, the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions destined for the Central Election Commission, and copies of the receipts referred to in Art. 287, Para. 6 and the recording technical devices from the machine voting. not later than 48 hours after receipt of the last tally sheet of a section election commission in the region. The tally sheets of the regional election commissions shall be delivered to the Central Election Commission with unseparated sheets.

(2) The regional election commission shall also deliver to the Central Election Commission:

1. a copy of the computer print-out of the data on the tally sheet and the decision of the region election commission, list of the tally sheets of the section election commissions received with the codes of the receipts thereof and the computer proposal for a tally sheet and a decision of the regional election commission, and the machine voting data, provided by the computation centre;

2. two machine-readable data mediums storing the numerical data generated by the processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions.

(3) After a check of the papers covered under Para. 1 and 2, the Central Election Commission shall issue a receipt to the regional election commission and a memorandum of delivery and acceptance shall be signed in two identical copies by the representatives of the Central Election Commission and the regional election commission.

(4) The election stationery and materials of the regional election commission, with the exception of those destined for the Central Election Commission, and the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, destined for the regional election commission, shall be delivered to the regional administration within whose territory the said commission is located.

(5) The election stationery and materials shall be safe-kept by the regional administrations until the next elections