Counting of votes cast in a polling district on polling day

1. Valid ballot papers shall be sorted in accordance with the marks made by voters for a candidate or a list of candidates.

2. All ballot papers must be recounted at least twice. The second and subsequent recounts of the ballot papers must be carried out by other members of the polling district electoral committee.

3. After counting the ballot papers in each group, the number of votes cast by the voters for the lists of candidates and the candidates as well as the number of invalid ballot papers shall be determined.

4. The polling district electoral committee must recount the ballot papers once if at least one committee member or election observer requests so before the signing of the vote counting records of the polling district.

5. The data counted by the polling district electoral committee and entered in the vote counting record of the polling district must be made publicly available in the polling station under the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission.

6. The counted ballot papers shall be put into designated packets, sealed and stored safely.

7. The counting of votes of the voters of that polling district who voted in the pre-poll voting shall begin once the polling district electoral committee has completed the counting of votes from those who voted at the polling station of that polling district and has entered them in the vote counting record of that polling district.