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Article P 1
 

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• 1. Unless it concerns the election of members of the municipal council, the general board, or the provincial council of a province that forms a single electoral district, the central electoral committee shall establish a corrigendum to the official report of a main polling station if the further investigation by a municipal polling station, as referred to in Article P 1e, results in a corrigendum to the official report of that municipal polling station.


• 2. The numbers recorded in the corrigendum replace the numbers previously recorded by the main polling station in its official report.


• 3. The corrigendum shall be signed by the chairperson of the central electoral committee.


• 4. The existence of the corrigendum shall be noted on the official report of the main electoral committee in a manner to be regulated by general administrative order.


• 5. The central electoral committee shall align the content of the digital file of the voting results in an electoral district generated by the software with the official reports of the municipal electoral committee and the main electoral committee, taking into account the corrections as included in the corrigenda. Article O 6 shall apply mutatis mutandis.


• 6. A model for the corrigendum to the official report of the main electoral committee shall be established by ministerial order.