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Vote Counting

Netherlands Netherlands

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: Immediately after the packets have been sealed as referred to in section N 2, the ballot box shall be opened. The ballot papers shall be counted and their number compared with the number of voters who voted.
Source: Act of 28 September 1989 containing new provisions governing the franchise and elections (Elections Act): Ch. N http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/Netherlands/Netherlands_Elections%20Act_1989am2009.pdf
Verified: 2022/08/02
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VC011

When are ballots recounted?
Question:Under what conditions are ballots recounted?
Answer(s): d. By request
f. Other
Comments: Section P21(1): At the meeting referred to in section P 20, before the result of the election is announced, the central electoral committee may decide, either ex proprio motu or in response to a reasoned request from one or more voters, to conduct a re-count of the ballot papers from all or from one or more polling stations if there are serious grounds for suspicion that errors in the count that might affect the allocation of seats have been made by one or more polling stations. The mayor who has the relevant ballot papers in his possession shall have them taken immediately to the central electoral committee at the latter’s request.
Source: Act of 28 September 1989 containing new provisions governing the franchise and elections (Elections Act): Ch. N http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/Netherlands/Netherlands_Elections%20Act_1989am2009.pdf
Verified: 2022/08/02
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