• 1. The national postal voting office shall check the outcome of the postal vote recording generated by the software using a control protocol to be drawn up by the Electoral Council. If the national postal voting office concludes that the software has not functioned reliably and the defect cannot be remedied after investigation, it shall disregard the outcome 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 national postal voting office.

• 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.