(1) The polling station commission shall record the data obtained while counting the votes in the election procedure log. The polling station commission shall prepare a vote counting report regarding the counting of votes which shall consist of two parts. Information from the election procedure log on the number of votes received by each list of candidates shall be entered in the first part of the vote counting report. Information from the election procedure log on the number of votes received by each candidate shall be entered in the second part of the vote counting report.
(2) Prior to the opening of ballot boxes, the polling station commission shall enter in the election procedure log information on the received, used, and spare ballot envelopes, the number of voters at the polling station and at the location of voters. Sealed ballot envelopes which have not been used in voting shall be cancelled.
(3) The ballot boxes shall be opened after entering the information referred to in Paragraph two of this Section in the election procedure log and the packaging of materials and ballot envelopes not usable in the counting of votes. The ballot boxes shall be opened one by one and the ballot envelopes shall be counted.
(4) Ballot envelopes taken out of each ballot box, without opening them, shall be sorted into valid and invalid ballot envelopes.
(5) The ballot envelopes shall be deemed invalid if they are torn, if they do not bear a stamp of the relevant polling station commission, and also if they do not bear the name of the relevant election and the number of the convocation of the Saeima to be elected.
(6) Invalid ballot envelopes shall be counted and packaged unopened, specifying that the pack contains invalid ballot envelopes and the number thereof. The total number of invalid ballot envelopes shall be entered in the election procedure log.
(7) The number of valid ballot envelopes removed from each ballot box must be equal to or less than the number of voters entered in the relevant list of participating voters.
(71) If the number of valid ballot envelopes in any ballot box exceeds the number of voters entered in the relevant list of participating voters, the ballot station commission shall make an entry in the election procedure log and shall immediately notify the relevant local government election commission thereof. Further counting of votes and all other activities in respect of the content of such ballot box shall be performed separately, preparing a special vote counting report. The addition of the content of such box to the total results shall be decided by the Central Election Commission.
(8) If a ballot box contains ballot papers which are not inserted in ballot envelopes, they shall be cancelled and packaged in accordance with the procedures specified by the Central Election Commission.
[30 May 2002; 9 March 2006; 6 February 2014; 18 January 2018; 8 April 2021]
