• 1. The main polling station shall check the voting results generated by the software at the constituency level using an audit protocol to be drawn up by the Electoral Council. If the main 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 audit referred to in the first paragraph shall be included in the official report of the main polling station.

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