§ Article 85Complaints against the Decisions of Electoral Committees which Have Been Adopted after the Close of the Poll

1. Parties which have nominated candidates, their representatives for elections, election observers may appeal against the decisions of polling district electoral committees concerning the drawing up of vote counting records to the municipal electoral committee not later than within 24 hours of their drawing up. These complaints must be investigated no later than within 24 hours of the submitting of such claims to the committee.
2. The decisions of the municipal electoral committee concerning vote counting records may be appealed against to the Central Electoral Committee no later than within 72 hours following their drawing up and must be considered before the official announcement of the final election results.
3. While investigating complaints against the decisions of polling district electoral committees concerning the drawing up of vote counting records, municipal electoral committees, in the presence of at least 3/5 of the committee members, may recount ballot papers which are presented by the polling district electoral committee, and, in the event of an arithmetical error in the records, incorrectly calculated valid and invalid ballot papers, the committees shall draw up an additional vote counting record of the polling district and append it to the vote counting record of the polling district. The municipal electoral committee shall not have the right to nullify the vote counting records of the polling district electoral committee.
4. While investigating the complaint against the decision of the municipal electoral committee concerning the drawing up of the municipal vote counting record, the Central Electoral Committee may recount ballot papers which are presented by the municipal electoral committee (or to instruct another municipal or polling district electoral committee to do so), and, in the event of an arithmetical error in the record, incorrectly calculated valid or invalid ballot papers, shall draw up an additional vote counting record of the municipality, the polling district and append it to the vote counting record of the municipality.
5. Parties which have nominated candidates and their representatives for elections in the Central Electoral Committee may appeal against the decisions of the Central Electoral Committee or against the refusal of the Central Electoral Committee to investigate complaints about the violations of this Law not later than within 3 days after the official announcement of the election results, to the Higher Administrative Court of Lithuania. The Higher Administrative Court of Lithuania shall, not later than within 3 days, investigate such complaints. Its decision shall become effective from the moment of its pronouncement.
CHAPTER XI
ESTABLISHMENT AND PROCALMATION OF ELECTION RESULTS