§ Article 67(untitled)

rotocol of Voting Results of Precinct Commission

 1. The precinct shall deliver its decision on voting results in the form of a protocol of
voting results for the given election precinct, referendum precinct.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 2. The protocol of voting results shall be drawn up on one sheet. In exceptional cases the
protocol may consist of more sheets than one and each sheet of such protocol shall be
numbered, signed by all present voting members of the precinct commission and sealed with
the commission's seal. The protocol of voting results shall contain the following:
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 a) copy No.;
 b) name of the election, referendum, date of voting;
 c) word "Protocol";
 d) address of the polling station and the number of the election precinct, referendum
precinct;
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)
 e) the following lines of the protocol:
 line 1: number of voters, referendum participants entered in the list as of the end of
voting;
 line 2: number of ballots received by the precinct commission;
 line 3: number of ballots issued to early voters, referendum participants, and in case of
early voting at referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation, local referendum – as a
single line 4 – in the premises of territorial commission;
 line 5: number of ballots issued to voters, referendum participants at the polling station on
the voting day;
 line 6: number of ballots issued to voters, referendum participants who voted outside the
polling station on the voting day;
 line 7: number of canceled ballots;
 line 8: number of ballots in the mobile ballot boxes;
 line 9: number of ballots in the stationary ballot boxes;
 line 10: number of invalid ballots;
 line 11: number of valid ballots;
 line 12 and the following lines: number of votes of voters cast for each option in all ballots,
number of votes of referendum participants cast for options “Yes” and “No” (“For” and “Against”)
in ballots for voting at referendum.
 If the law provides for voting by absentee certificates, the protocol of voting results shall
also contain the following lines:
 line 11a: number of absentee certificates received by precinct commission
 line 11b: number of absentee certificates issued by precinct commission to voters,
referendum participants at election precinct, referendum precinct before the voting day;
 line 11c: number of voters, referendum participants who voted at election precinct,
referendum precinct on the basis of absentee certificates;
 line 11d: number of cancelled absentee certificates at election precinct, referendum
precinct;
 line 11e: number of absentee certificates issued to voters, referendum participants by
territorial commission (election commission of municipal formation, district election
commission);
 line 11f: number of lost absentee certificates.
 In order to enter data received in cases referred to in Clause 22, Article 68 of this Federal
Law, the protocol of voting results shall also contain the following lines:
 line 11g: number of lost ballots;
 line 11h: number of ballots unaccounted when received;
(Paragraph “h” as amended by the Federal Law of October 4, 2010, No.263-FZ)
 f) information on the number of complaints (appeals) attached to the protocol, which were
received by the precinct commission on the voting day and before the end of counting of votes
of voters, referendum participants;
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)
 g) surnames and initials of the chairman, the deputy chairman, the secretary and the
other voting members of precinct commission and their signatures;
 h) date and time when the protocol was signed;
 i) seal of precinct commission.

 3. The numbers mentioned in Clause 2 of this Article shall be entered by the precinct
commission in digits and words. Numbering of the protocol sheets is established by the law.
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