31.15 Upon the request of the candidates proxy or the accredited foreign observer the copy of the protocol on summarizing the results of voting is given, verifies by the signatures of the chairman of the committee or the secretary and by the committee stamp.

31.16 The copy of the protocol summarizing the results of the elections in a precinct is posted in the center of a precinct in a place visible for all, after that the chairman of the Precinct Electoral Commission one copy of the protocol of summarizing the results of the voting, the stamp ( stamps) for verification of the ballots and the sealed electoral documents submits to Community Electoral Commission immediately.

32.1 Ballots stamped by a stamp corresponding to approved specimen are recognized as invalid if they are voted "pro" for more than one candidate , are voted "pro" for a candidate and bearing a note in the line [I am against all], and in case, when one candidate is voted , both lines [I agree] and [I disagree] are marked or not marked, and also the ballots bearing extra inscriptions and notes.

32.2 Ballots that cause suspicion will be voted on by the Electoral Commission.

33.1 Ballots stamped by a stamp corresponding to approved specimen are recognized as not corresponding to the approved specimen, if they do not correspond to approved specimen.

33.2 Ballots that cause suspicion are voted on by the Precinct Electoral Commission.

34.1 The ballot is recognized as valid, which hasn't been recognized as invalid or not corresponding to approved specimen and which is bearing the stamp corresponding to approved specimen.

35.1 Before the summarizing of the results of elections in communities, the Community Electoral Commissions in the presence of the persons, who have the right to be present on the Committee sessions, verifies the availability of all necessary documents, the stamp (stamps) securing the validity of the ballots, the wholeness of the seals, the meeting of the presented protocols to the corresponding demands, makes corresponding records in their register and closes them in a safe place.

35.2 The session on the summarizing the results of elections for the community council is conducted without interruption, if no need for checking is revealed.

35.3 At the end of the session, the chairman of the Community Electoral Commission announces the results of the elections in community and sends it to Regional Electoral Commission. The Regional Electoral Commission sends one of each copies of the protocols summarizing the results of elections to Central Electoral Commission and to corresponding marzpet.

36.1 The Community Electoral Commission, in the presence of the persons entitled to be present at the session of the committee, checks the correspondence of the data of protocols of each electoral precinct on summarizing the results of the elections to each other.
In case of discrepancy of the mentioned data in separate precincts by a written demand of at least 4 members of the Community Electoral Commission the Community Electoral Committee checks the correspondence of the data in the protocols of Precinct Electoral Committees to the factual data.

36.2 The authors of the special opinion adjoined to the protocol of the corresponding Precinct Electoral Commission and the chairman of that Committee can participate in the procedure of checking.

36.4 The refusal of committee member to sign the corrected protocol is registers and attached to the corrected protocol.

36.5 The Communit y Electoral Commission composes a protocol summarizing the results of elections of the community leader, correcting the discrepancies in the results of voting in electoral precincts in the cases prescribed by this article, and checking in the manner prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission the incorrectness of the voting results and their influence on the number of votes given in favor of each candidate, mentioning by precinct the following results :

1) the total number of voters based on the lists of voters;
2) the number of registered voters based on signatures;
3) the number of valid ballots present in the ballot box;
4) the number of ballots recognized as invalid or not corresponding to the approved specimen;

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