Are official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system?

Article 67 of the Federal Law No.67-FZ of 12.06.2002 (Version of 05.05.2014) On basic guarantees of electoral rights and the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to participate in a referendum:

        1.The protocol of voting results сan be composed in electronic form.

        Article 68 of the Federal Law No.67-FZ of 12.06.2002 (Version of 05.05.2014) On basic guarantees of electoral rights and the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to participate in a referendum:

        26. After all necessary actions and all counting operations are completed it shall be mandatory for the precinct commission to hold a final meeting at which it shall consider complaints (appeals) concerning violations committed during the voting and counting of votes of voters, referendum participants. Then the precinct election commission shall sign its protocol of voting results and issue copies of the protocol to persons mentioned in Clause 3, Article 30 of this Federal Law. The protocol of voting results shall be prepared in duplicate and shall be signed by all present voting members of the precinct commission, with the indication of the date and time (hours and minutes) when the protocol was signed. If prepared with the use of technical equipment for vote counting or an e-voting complex the protocol shall become legally valid after it is signed by the aforementioned persons. The protocol shall not be completed with a pencil and no alterations shall be made therein. Signing of such protocol in violation of these rules may constitute a ground for invalidation of this protocol and for a vote recount.

29. Upon the request of any member of the precinct commission or any person mentioned in Clause 3, Article 30 of this Federal Law, immediately after signing the protocol of voting results (including a repeat protocol) the precinct commission, shall provide these persons with certified copy of the protocol. The provision of certified copy of the protocol shall be recorded by the precinct commission in a special register and the person who receives a certified copy of the protocol shall sign for its receipt in the register. The responsibility for completeness and accuracy of the data contained in a copy of the protocol shall be imposed on the person who certified this copy.

30. The first copy of the protocol of voting results of the precinct commission, after it was signed by all present voting members of the precinct commission and its certified copies were provided to all persons entitled to receive them, shall be, without delay, delivered to superior commission and shall not be returned to the precinct commission. The attached to the first copy documents shall include special opinions of voting members of the precinct commission; the complaints (appeals) concerning violations of the laws that establish the procedure of conduct of elections, referendum received by the precinct commission on the voting day and before the end of counting of votes of voters, referendum participants; the decisions taken by the precinct commission in connection with these complaints (appeals); certificates, statements and registers of the precinct commission. Certified copies of these documents and decisions of the precinct commission shall be attached to the second copy of the protocol of voting results. The first copy of the protocol of voting results with the attached documents shall be delivered to superior commission by the chairperson or the secretary of the precinct commission or some other voting member of the precinct commission designated by its chairman. Such delivery of the protocol may be witnessed by other members of the precinct commission and by observers sent to the given precinct election commission.

31. The second copy of the protocol of voting results of the precinct commission shall be made available for examination to the persons mentioned in Clause 3, Article 30 of this Federal Law and its certified copy shall be displayed to the general public at a place designated by the precinct commission. If the protocol is composed in electronic form, its second copy shall be made by the printing of the paper protocol and signed by all members of the precinct commission having the right of decisive vote who were present at the moment of ascertainment of voting results and the making of protocol. The second copy of the protocol together with the election documents established by the law, including the sealed ballots, the lists of voters, referendum participants, and the seal of precinct commission shall be delivered to superior commission for safe storage.

32. Precinct commissions shall, by the decision of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation or on its instruction on the basis of the decision of corresponding election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation at elections, referenda use technological equipment for vote counting or electronic voting complexes. If the voting days at elections and (or) referenda of various levels coincide, the use of technical equipment for voter counting, electronic voting complexes is mandatory for vote counting at all elections and (or) referenda of all levels. The list of election precincts, referendum precincts that shall use technical equipment for vote counting and electronic voting complexes is determined by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation or, on its instruction, by corresponding election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation.

             35. The order of use of technical equipment for vote counting, electronic voting complexes, technical system of information transfer, order and terms of transfer, processing and use of information on elections, referendum, including the data of protocols of voting results transferred via technical communication channels in electronic format shall be established by the federal law, and in the part not regulated by the federal law – by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

            Article 74 of the Federal Law No.67-FZ of 12.06.2002 (Version of 05.05.2014) On basic guarantees of electoral rights and the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to participate in a referendum:

            4. From the commencement of voting and till the time when the protocol of voting results (the protocol of results of the election, referendum) is signed by corresponding commission, GAS “Vybory” is used for monitoring of the progress and establishment of voting results by transmitting the data from subordinate commissions to superior commissions, and its separate technical components are used to count votes cast by voters, referendum participants. The data on the progress of voting and establishment of voting results that is obtained through GAS “Vybory” (its separate technical components) shall be regarded as preliminary and legally ineffective information unless otherwise provided by this Federal Law, other law. http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102076216&intelsearch=67-%D4%C7

Article 86 of the Federal Law № 20-FZ of 22.02.2014 ? On the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation?:

           3. The chairman, the secretary or another member of the precinct election commission shall hand over first copies of protocols with the voting results to the precinct election commission with attached documents to a member of the territorial election commission who examines the way protocols were made and fullness of documents attached. If the territorial election commission is equipped with the complex of automated facilities GAS ?Vybory?, data from protocols shall be put immediately in GAS ?Vybory? with the examination of the making of control correlation data that were put in the protocols. If technical errors were found after the lead-in of data from protocols in GAS ?Vybory? сorrect data shall be put in GAS ?Vybory? only upon the motivated decision of the territorial election commission. If GAS ?Vybory? is not used, control examination shall be made by a member of the territorial election commission who examines the making of protocols.

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The establishment of voting results with the use of election voting processing complexes and e-voting complexes shall be made in electronic form at election precinct with the printing of protocols after the election. Between the level of election precinct and the central level, at the territorial election commissions is the collection of protocols’ data of precinct election commissions made during the processing of official voting results with entering of data into the State automated system 'Vybory'.