• 1. The municipal polling station checks the voting results generated by the software at the municipal level using a control protocol to be drawn up by the Electoral Council. If the municipal polling station concludes that the software has not functioned reliably and the defect cannot be remedied after investigation, it shall disregard the results generated by the software and shall immediately inform the Electoral Council of this conclusion.

• 2. The outcome of the check referred to in the first paragraph shall be recorded in the official report of the municipal polling station.

• 3. The Electoral Council shall publish the audit protocol referred to in the first paragraph for an election in the Government Gazette no later than the day of the nomination.