§ Section 31(untitled)

(1) The polling station commission shall
record the data obtained while counting the votes in the election
procedure log. The polling station commission shall prepare a
vote counting report regarding the counting of votes which shall
consist of two parts. Information from the election procedure log
on the number of votes received by each list of candidates shall
be entered in the first part of the vote counting report.
Information from the election procedure log on the number of
votes received by each candidate shall be entered in the second
part of the vote counting report.
(2) Prior to the opening of ballot boxes, the polling station
commission shall enter in the election procedure log information
on the received, used, and spare ballot envelopes, the number of
voters at the polling station and at the location of voters.
Sealed ballot envelopes which have not been used in voting shall
be cancelled.
(3) The ballot boxes shall be opened after entering the
information referred to in Paragraph two of this Section in the
election procedure log and the packaging of materials and ballot
envelopes not usable in the counting of votes. The ballot boxes
shall be opened one by one and the ballot envelopes shall be
counted.
(4) Ballot envelopes taken out of each ballot box, without
opening them, shall be sorted into valid and invalid ballot
envelopes.
(5) The ballot envelopes shall be deemed invalid if they are
torn, if they do not bear a stamp of the relevant polling station
commission, and also if they do not bear the name of the relevant
election and the number of the convocation of the Saeima
to be elected.
(6) Invalid ballot envelopes shall be counted and packaged
unopened, specifying that the pack contains invalid ballot
envelopes and the number thereof. The total number of invalid
ballot envelopes shall be entered in the election procedure
log.
(7) The number of valid ballot envelopes removed from each
ballot box must be equal to or less than the number of voters
entered in the relevant list of participating voters.
(7¹) If the number of valid ballot envelopes in any
ballot box exceeds the number of voters entered in the relevant
list of participating voters, the ballot station commission shall
make an entry in the election procedure log and shall immediately
notify the relevant local government election commission thereof.
Further counting of votes and all other activities in respect of
the content of such ballot box shall be performed separately,
preparing a special vote counting report. The addition of the
content of such box to the total results shall be decided by the
Central Election Commission.
(8) If a ballot box contains ballot papers which are not
inserted in ballot envelopes, they shall be cancelled and
packaged in accordance with the procedures specified by the
Central Election Commission.
[30 May 2002; 9 March 2006; 6 February 2014; 18 January
2018; 8 April 2021]