(1) After the votes have been counted, and after the report of the polling process and the vote count has been signed by the ward election board, its chairman shall relate the vote count to superior authorities, and forward one copy of the report to the divisional election board without delay. Then he/she shall wait for the divisional election board to direct him/her to discontinue the board operations.
(2) Should any chairman of the ward election board fail to meet the obligations arising from the provisions stipulated by the foregoing Paragraph 1 of this Article within twenty-four hours after the end of voting in spite of having been requested to do so by the divisional election board, the divisional election board may compute the vote count received in the other electoral wards. After the stipulated final date, and after the divisional election board members have signed the report (Article 74 hereinafter), no vote count that may arrive shall be taken into account.
(3) The ward election board shall seal the ballots and Formal Envelopes cast, and the ward extracts from the Permanent Electoral Roll/Register of Persons Unable to Vote Locally, and deposit them, along with the other election-related documents, with the Local Authorities for safe- keeping.
