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Article 159
 

Vote counting record of a polling district


1. A vote counting record shall be drawn up in every polling district. The vote counting record of a single-member constituency of the polling district shall consist of one part, and the vote counting record of the multi-member constituency of the polling district shall consist of two parts.


2. The following data shall be entered in the vote counting record of the single-member constituency and in the first part of the vote counting record of the multi-member constituency:


1) the final number of voters on the electoral roll of the polling district on polling day, namely, the number of voters on the final electoral roll of the polling district before the opening of the polling station and the number of voters who have been added to the electoral roll of the polling district, who have come from other polling districts, who have been removed from the register, have voted in other polling districts, who have been added to the electoral roll of their own polling district, and who been removed from the register;


2) the number of ballot papers received from the constituency electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee and the number of ballot papers issued for voting at home;


3) the number of ballot papers issued to each member of the electoral committee on polling day, the number of ballot papers issued to voters, the number of signatures of voters, the number of arrival cards, and the number of spoilt and unused ballot papers;


4) the number of cancelled ballot papers;


5) the number of voters who have voted at the polling station of the polling district;


6) the time of opening of the ballot box and the result of the inspection (in the form of a statement);


7) the number of invalid ballot papers found in the ballot box;


8) the number of valid ballot papers found in the ballot box;


9) the number of votes cast for each candidate (in the single-member constituency) or for each list of candidates (in the multi-member constituency);


10) the number of voting envelopes of voters who have voted at home in the given polling district, the number of voting envelopes of voters who have voted in pre-poll voting, received from the constituency electoral committee or the municipality electoral committee, the number of all voting envelopes, and the number of stamped ballot paper envelopes;


11) the number of invalid ballot papers received by voting envelopes;


12) the number of valid ballot papers received by voting envelopes;


13) the voter turnout in the polling district.


3. The following data shall be entered in the second part of the vote counting record of the multi-member constituency of the polling district:


1) the number of ballot papers in which the voters have indicated the preference votes;


2) the number of ballot papers in which the voters have not indicated the preference votes;


3) the number of preference votes cast for each candidate;


4) the sum total of preference votes received by all candidates;


5) other vote counting data established by the Central Electoral Commission that are necessary to verify whether the preference votes cast by voters have been counted accurately.


4. If the number of ballot papers found in the ballot box does not match the number of ballot papers issued to voters this discrepancy shall be documented in the vote counting record of the polling district.