§ Article 82The Counting of Votes in the Constituency Electoral Committee

1. The constituency electoral committee shall accept the documents delivered by the polling district committee and shall check:
1) whether all required documents (packages and special envelopes with ballot papers) have been delivered;
2) sealing and descriptions of the packages (whether the description is full and correct);
3) whether all data have been entered in the vote counting records; if they do not contradict one another; if they correspond to the data available to the constituency electoral committee (the number of ballot papers issued to the polling district committee, the number of voters, the number of outer envelopes received by post, data on the votes cast by voters for lists of candidates, which are indicated in the first and second parts of the multi-member constituency vote counting record, etc.); if there are all necessary signatures; whether all separate opinions of the committee members, remarks of observers are attached to the record in which they are specified;
4) whether all remarks and complaints of voters have been considered in the polling district committee.
2. The constituency electoral committee shall immediately report the data of the vote counting record, its comments concerning the documents submitted by the polling district committee to the Central Electoral Committee in the manner prescribed by it, and shall ensure the safety of submitted documents.
3. The packages sealed by the polling district committees, which contain ballot papers or other election documents, may be opened in the constituency electoral committee only by decision of the constituency electoral committee. The constituency electoral committee may recount the ballot papers of the polling district committee or instruct the polling district committee, from which it has received the ballot papers, to recount the said ballot papers, or instruct another polling district committee to recount the ballot papers. When recounting votes, electoral committees must act in compliance with paragraph 4 of Article 78 of this Law. The constituency electoral committee must, in the case specified in paragraph 6 of this Article, adopt a decision to recount ballot papers of all polling district electoral committees.
4. Upon establishing deficiencies of the documents submitted by the polling district electoral committee, the constituency electoral committee shall take measures to eliminate the deficiencies, request the chairman of the polling district electoral committee to submit the missing documents.
5. The constituency electoral committee shall count the votes in the following manner: it shall sum up the figures submitted by polling district electoral committees and shall add to them the votes cast by the voters by post, which have been counted in the constituency electoral committee.
6. The constituency electoral committee must adopt a decision to recount ballot papers of all the polling districts of a single-member constituency when, prior to the signing of the vote counting record, this has been requested by at least one member of the committee, a representative of a party or a candidate, and when the difference between the votes for the candidates who came first or second in this single-member constituency in accordance with the preliminary election results, is less than 50.