§ Article 70Summary protocols of polling and election results

Summary protocols of polling and election results

1. Polling and elections results shall be entered in summary protocols of polling and election results of the CEC, DECs, and PECs.

2. A summary protocol is an individual administrative-legal act evidencing the polling and election results. A summary protocol and its copy, certified as
defined by this Law, shall have equal legal force.

3. It is prohibited to modify data in a summary protocol. The higher election commission shall consider whether a summary protocol is void.
Modification of any summary protocol data shall give rise to liability of the respective election commission chairperson and secretary as defined by this
Law.

4. If any mistake is made during filling out a summary protocol, in order to correct it, an inscription ‘corrected’ shall immediately be put alongside the
respective data in a summary protocol. An election commission shall draw up an amendment protocol that shall specify the amended data entered into a
summary protocol and the date and time of drawing up the protocol. All members of an election commission attending the session shall sign the
amendment protocol. A commission seal shall be put on the amendment protocol, the amendment protocol shall be registered in the election
commission registration book, and shall be attached to the summary protocol in which data were amended.

5. Each type of summary protocols (summary protocols of PEC polling results and summary protocols of DEC polling and election results) shall be

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assigned individual numbers that shall not be reiterated.

6. Summary protocols shall be registered accurately. The CEC shall ensure the printing of summary protocols. Summary protocols shall be printed under
the constant supervision of observers and persons authorised by the CEC. The person printing summary protocols shall be solely responsible for exact
compliance of the number of printed protocols transferred to the CEC with that of ordered protocols in order to prevent printing and dissemination of
an excess number of protocols.

7. An election commission chairperson shall be responsible for keeping the protocols in the election commission and for distributing them as required.

8. A DEC shall provide a PEC with each type of summary protocol of polling results at an electoral precinct.

9. Summary protocols shall be printed on paper with protective markings that can only be ordered and purchased by the CEC.

10. Summary protocols shall be printed in the Georgian language, while in Abkhazia they shall be printed in the Abkhazian language, and for electoral
districts for which ballot papers have been printed in a different language understandable to the local population, summary protocols shall be printed in
the corresponding language.