§ Article 77Vote Counting Records of the Polling District

1. In each polling district the vote counting record of the polling district shall consist of two parts.
2. The first part of the vote counting record of the polling district shall include the following:
1) the number of voters in the polling district;
2) the number of ballot papers received from the municipal electoral committee;
3) the number of ballot papers delivered to each member of the committee, the number of ballot papers delivered to voters, the number of voters' signatures in the electoral roll of the polling district, the number of voter certificates, the number of arrival cards, and the number of unused and spoiled ballot papers;
4) the number of annulled ballot papers;
5) the number of voters who have voted in the polling station of the polling district;
6) the time of the opening of the ballot box;
7) the number of invalid ballot papers found in the ballot box;
8) the number of valid ballot papers found in the ballot box;
9) the number of votes found in the ballot box which have been separately cast for a list of candidates nominated by each party (their coalition);
10) the number of envelopes received by post, the number of sealed ballot paper envelopes; the number of unsealed ballot paper envelopes;
11) the number of invalid ballot papers received by post;
12) the number of valid ballot papers received by post;
13) the number of votes received by post for a list of candidates nominated by each party (their coalition);
14) the total number of voters who participated in the elections in the polling district;
15) the total number of invalid ballot papers in the polling district; and
16) the total number of votes cast for a list of candidates nominated by each party (their coalition).
3. The number of the voters of the polling district shall be established according to the electoral rolls of the polling district. The number of the voters who have been delivered the ballot papers, shall be established according to the voters’ signatures in the electoral roll of the polling district, proving that the ballot papers have been received. The number of the voters who have voted in the polling district shall be established according to the number of the ballot papers lawfully delivered to voters by the electoral committee of that polling district and found in the ballot box of the polling district. The total number of the voters who have participated in the elections in the polling district shall be established by adding the number of the ballot papers found in the ballot boxes to the number of the ballot papers received by post and counted.
4. If more ballot papers are found in the ballot box than it has been delivered to voters, the electoral committee of the polling district shall take measures to discover the causes. This shall be entered in the vote counting record of the polling district, indicating the number of extra ballot papers, which were found.
5. After all data have been entered into the first part of the vote counting record of the polling district and all ballot papers have been put into sealed packages and the special envelope (envelopes) for preference votes to be counted, the vote counting records of the polling district shall be signed by the chairman and members of the polling district committee. After that the election observers shall sign the records. Their remarks, the separate opinions of the committee members shall be appended to the records and shall be an integral part thereof.
6. The second part of the vote counting record of the polling district shall contain the following information:
1) the number of counted ballot papers;
2) the number of ballot papers in which voters have not indicated preference votes;
3) the number of preference votes cast for each candidate;
4) the sum total of preference votes received by all candidates;
5) other vote counting data established by the Central Electoral Committee necessary when checking if the votes cast by the voters have been counted accurately.
7. After all data have been entered into the second part of the polling district vote counting record and all counted ballot papers have been put into sealed packages, this part of the polling district vote counting record shall be signed by the chairman and members of the polling district electoral committee. After that the election observers shall sign the second part of the said record. Their remarks, the separate opinions of the committee members shall be appended to the second part of the record and shall be an integral part thereof. If when counting preference votes the polling district electoral committee or the municipal electoral committee establishes that the data recorded in the first part of the vote counting record are inaccurate, a record shall be drawn up to correct the mistake. The second part of the record and ballot papers shall be returned to the municipal electoral committee. The municipal electoral committee shall adopt a decision concerning the mistake.