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Vote Counting

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VC004

Votes are sorted/counted at
Question:Following the close of the voting, where are the votes first sorted and counted?
Answer: a. The polling stations
Comments: After the chairperson or the deputy chairperson of the election committee has announced that the polling day voting has ended, the ballot papers are without delay to be taken from the ballot box and counted. Similarly, the number of the people that have used their right to vote during the polling day is counted, according to the entries made in the electoral roll or the voting register.
Source: Election Act 714/1998 as amended, Section 78 https://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1998/en19980714_20040218.pdf
Verified: 2019/04/02
VC011

When are ballots recounted?
Question:Under what conditions are ballots recounted?
Answer(s): b. Always recounted
Comments: On the Monday following the election day at 12.00 at the latest, a recount of the election day votes and checking of the calculations made by the election boards and, in cases referred to in section 82, subsection 4, the calculations by the central municipal election boards shall be commenced. In the recount of the votes, it shall be decided which votes for a candidate are regarded as valid and which votes are disregarded as invalid. The valid votes for each candidate given both in the advance voting and on election day shall be counted.
Source: Election Act 714/1998 as amended, Section 87 http://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/5672
Verified: 2019/04/02
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