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Article 34
 

(1) After the completion of the preliminary vote counting, the polling station commission shall sign the first part of the vote counting minutes, and before a break is announced, it shall package together:

1) all the valid ballot papers grouped and packaged according to the numbers assigned to the candidate lists;

2) all the ballot envelopes containing invalid ballot papers;

3) one original copy of the vote-counting minutes;

4) the lists of voters.

(2) The package shall be sealed and stamped with the stamp of the polling station commission. The authorised observers present shall also have the right to affix their own stamps or put their signatures on the package; if they do so, a note to this effect shall be entered in the minutes of the election process.

(3) The packaged election materials shall be left in the care of two persons designated by the polling station commission.