(1) The Central Election Commission of BiH shall adopt the Regulations for manual and electronic counting of ballots and establishing of the voting results for ballots cast by voters who have voted by tendered ballots, absentee ballots, ballots cast by prisoners and detainees or voters confined to institutions, and homebound voters unable to come to the Polling Station due to age, illness or disability, and ballots cast by mail.

(2) All ballots shall be counted at the Polling Stations, except where the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina has established that the ballots should be counted at one or more centralised counting centres. The Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall adopt the Regulations for ballot vote counting at one or more centralised counting centres. The Central Election Commission shall adopt the regulations for manual and electronic counting of votes and establishing the voting results in the Centralised Counting Centre, including the instances where the voting results cannot be established at a specific polling station due to a malfunction of the election technology. The voting results at a Centralised Counting Centre shall be posted publicly at the counting centre so that the results can be viewed by the public, while the copies of the voting results shall be delivered to accredited observers at the Centralized Counting Centre upon their request.

(3) The Central Election Commission of BiH shall appoint a director of the Main Center for Counting and three deputies. The director and deputies shall be from different constituent peoples of BiH and one shall be a representative of Others. The director and deputies shall be persons with a minimum of three years of experience in conducting the elections and may not be active members of any political party.

(4) Ballots shall be counted in a manner as not to violate the secrecy of the vote.