§ Article 71The Procedure of Establishment of Referendum Results

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1. The Central Electoral Committee may only begin establishing the results of the referendum after having received the vote counting records of all city and regional referendum committees and also, other documents indicated in Article 70 of this Law, and shall investigate all the complaints regarding the vote counting records of the city and regional referendum committees.
2. According to the vote counting records of the city, regional referendum committees and according to the vote counting records at the Republic of Lithuania diplomatic missions (consulates), the Central Electoral Committee shall determine:
1) the number of voters having the right to take part in the referendum;
2) the number of voters who took part in the referendum;
3) the number of referendum ballot papers which are invalid:
4) the number of valid referendum ballot papers;
5) the number of “YES” and “NO” or “FOR” and “AGAINST” replies.
3. In examining the appeals submitted in accordance with the procedure set forth in this Law, the Central Electoral Committee may recount the referendum ballot papers, and having determined counting errors, may correct the entries in the counting records. The Central Electoral Committee may not acknowledge as invalid the vote counting records of city, regional and polling district referendum committees on the basis of the errors encountered in vote counting records.
4. The Central Electoral Committee, having determined that gross violations of this Law, committed in the course of voting, or the falsification of documents, have had a decisive impact on the results of the referendum, it may acknowledge the referendum results as invalid.