Art. 390. (1) The Central Election Commission shall create a database by means of computer processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions within Bulgaria, the machine voting data, the tally sheet cables and the scanned copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions abroad.

(2) The data from the tally sheets of the section election commissions referred to in Para. 1 shall be re-entered at the Central Election Commission. A computer comparison shall be performed between the data from the tally sheets of the section election commissions and the machine voting data as entered at the regional election commissions and at the Central Election Commission, and the differences shall be printed out.

(3) The scanned copies of the tally sheets and the tally sheet cables with the results of the voting abroad as received shall be entered and re-entered at the Central Election Commission. The votes received for the separate candidate lists and the preferences for the candidates on each list shall be added to the votes received by the respective list and the preferences for individual candidates within Bulgaria.

(4) If there are differences, as well as upon detection of apparent errors of fact, the Central Election Commission shall pronounce by decision on the final numerical data on each of the cases and shall update the database.

(5) The election results shall be determined according to the updated database.

(6) Where the differences or the errors referred to in para. 4 are of a nature to alter the election result, the Central Election Commission shall communicate the said differences or errors to the political parties, coalitions of parties and nomination committees concerned.

(7) The Central Election Commission bulletin is published according to the updated database. (8) The updated database of the Central Election Commission on a machine- readable data medium shall be provided to the President of the Republic, to the Chairperson of the National Assembly, to the Council of Ministers, to the political parties, coalitions of parties and nomination committees with registered candidates, to sociological agencies, to libraries, to universities, to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and to other organizations. (9) The database referred to in Para. 8 may not be modified and circulated without permission of the Central Election Commission.