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Article Na 13
 

• 1. The members of the municipal polling station are authorized to open the transport box and the packages referred to in Article N 11, paragraph 1, for the purpose of a new count of votes.


• 2. The municipal polling station shall state in its official report which polling stations have had a new count of voting documents, the reason for doing so, and which voting documents were involved.


• 3. The new count of voting documents shall take place in accordance with the provisions of or pursuant to law regarding the counting of votes by a polling station.


• 4. After the new count of votes has been completed, the voting documents from the opened packages shall be repacked and sealed in the manner described in Articles N 2 and N 9. The packages shall then be returned to the transport box. The transport box is then locked and sealed.