While the Election Code contains detailed provisions on the summary protocol of voting and the consolidation of the election results, there are no provisions on the prompt publishing of preliminary results at precinct or district level. Though representatives of election-subjects are handed copies of the PECs’ summary protocol of voting (Art. 60.8), there is no provision in the law stipulating that preliminary election results have to be published by the PECs. On the basis of the summary protocols of the PECs, the DEC has to consolidate the election results at district level by the fourth day after election day. Not until then does the DEC have to put the data in the public display protocol, which is to be displayed in an easily accessible place at the DEC (Art. 63.7), and hand over the summary protocol of voting to the representatives of election-subjects (Art. 63.9). Based on the protocols received from the DECs and PECs, the CEC, finally, consolidates the results of parliamentary and presidential elections. It is obliged to do so no later than 18 days (previously: 10 days) after election day. According to the revised Art. 64.3, however, parallel to the summary protocols the entering of the dates of election results from the election precincts, the CEC shall ensure the data from those protocols is placed on the web-site. Furthermore, the amended Art. 29.1 p) provides that the CEC should ensure computer processing of the voting/election results communicated by DECs and that they are immediately published on the Internet. In summary, whilst the Code provides for the publication of provisional results by the CEC, it fails to do so with regard to the DECs and PECs. Furthermore the law provides for a relatively long time period before publishing the final results.
