Accounting of envelopes of voters who have voted in pre-poll voting

1. Before starting to count the votes of the voters who have voted in pre-poll voting, the covering envelopes received from the constituency electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee shall be put together and mixed with the covering envelopes of the voters who have voted at home.

2. Counting of the covering envelopes received from the voters who voted at the polling station of the polling district in pre-poll voting shall proceed as follows:

1) according to the submitted data, the number of envelopes received is checked against the number of the voters who have voted in pre-poll voting;

2) the chair of the polling district electoral committee produces, unopened, all the received covering envelopes. Their number shall be announced and entered in the vote counting record of the polling district;

3) covering envelopes are opened one by one, a poll card is taken out of the covering envelope, the voter’s surname is read out loud and checked against the electoral roll of the polling district or against the data of the electoral roll, if the polling districts has access the electronic electoral roll;

4) the ballot paper envelope is stamped with a mark of the polling district. The marked ballot paper envelope is placed into the ballot box set up and marked according to the established requirements. If the person on the poll card is not on the electoral roll, if the electoral roll bears a voter’s signature indicating that the voter has already voted in the polling district, if there is an entry indicating that the voter has voted in another polling district, if another voting envelope has been received from the same voter, if there is no poll card in the covering envelope, or if there is more than one ballot paper envelope in the covering envelope, the ballot paper envelope shall be left unstamped and unopened. Then, the ballot paper envelope shall be crossed through and the ballot paper in this envelope shall not be counted towards the sum of votes in the vote counting record of the polling district.