If official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system, at which level results are entered into an electronic tabulation system?

ELECTION CODE
Promulgated, State Gazette No.19 (Amended on March 7^th 2017)

Article 271 
Tallying Machine Voting

271.1 After the completion of the voting, the section election commission shall tally the machine voting results in the voting section complying with the provisions of this Section according to a procedure established by the Central Election Commission under Item 29 of Article 57 (1) herein.

71.2 Upon ascertainment of the machine voting results, the number of voters who voted by voting machine shall equal the number of votes confirmed in the machine voting.

Article 273
Constituency Election Commission Tally Sheet

273.1 The section election commission shall ascertain the results of voting by paper ballots and the machine voting results and shall enter the said results in a tally sheet.

273.2 The tally sheet of the section election commission shall be in three identical copies and shall be manufactured of three-ply carbonless copy paper. The tally sheet shall be protected by print security features determined by a decision of the Central Election Commission. The tally sheet shall state the names of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees in the form in which they were registered to contest the elections. The names shall be printed in the tally sheet according to the sequential number on the ballot of the relevant party, coalition and nomination committee.

Article 285 
Delivery of Section Election Commission Tally Sheet and Recording Technical Device to Constituency Election Commission

285.1 The chairperson or the deputy chairperson, the secretary and a member of the section election commission, nominated by different parties and coalitions, shall deliver to the constituency election commission the copies of the tally sheet destined for the constituency election commission and for the Central Election Commission, the machine voting recording technical device and the machine print-out showing the machine voting data. The second blank form of the tally sheet of the section election commission, received according to the procedure established by Item 7 of Article 215 (1) herein, shall be delivered as well, with the serial number of the said blank form being checked against the number of the tally sheet as entered in the memorandum of delivery and acceptance of the election stationery and materials.

Article 288
Data Transfer from Recording Technical Devices

288.1 The members of the section election commission referred to in Article 285 (1) herein shall trace the transfer of the data from the machine voting recording technical device at the computation centre of the constituency election commission.

288.2 The data from the recording technical device shall be checked against the machine voting data in the tally sheet of the section election commission.

Additional clarification of the tabulation process was obtained from the Bulgarian EMB: Voting results are counted at the polling stations after the closing of the election day, for which a protocol on paper carrier is drafted according to a sample form approved by Central Election Commission (CEC). The ballot papers are counted by hand at the polling station. The protocols are then delivered to the respective municipal election commissions (MECs) / regional election commissions (RECs) where a database with the registered results from all polling stations on the territory of the respective MECs/RECs is generated. In electronic format, the results are published on the websites of the relevant MECs/RECs and also on the CEC website. The scanned protocols from polling stations are also published immediately after the tabulation of data from the protocols in the MECs/RECs. Such data are accessible at present also through the “Archive” section of the CEC website.