Taking ballot papers into account upon ascertaining of voting results

(1) A foreign mission sends the received envelopes with ballot papers to the State Electoral Office. Whereaccording to the information in the list of voters, the voter has already voted or has voted several times, the foreign mission does not take into account any of the ballot papers of the voter and the envelopes with the ballot papers are not sent to the State Electoral Office.

(2) The ballot papers received by a foreign mission are taken into account in the ascertaining of the votingresults if they are received by the State Electoral Office not later than on the fourth day before the referendum day.

(3) The voting results of voters who voted in a foreign state are ascertained by Tallinn City Vote CountingCommittee.

(4) The State Electoral Office forwards the ballot papers of voters who voted in a foreign state to the votecounting committee specified in subsection 3 of this section not later than on the second day before the referendum day.

(5) Envelopes with the ballot papers of voters who voted in a foreign state are opened on the referendum day inorder to ascertain voting results.

[RT I, 09.07.2018, 1 – entry into force 01.01.2021]