The House of Representatives voted, in its session held at dawn today, Monday, on Article (16) of the Elections Law.

First: A- The Commission adopts the electronic results accelerator devices and conducts the manual counting and sorting process for all polls and for all stations in the same polling station after sending the results to the results tabulation center, the carrier and issuing the electronic results report from the results accelerator device. The Commission is committed to announcing the results within 24 hours for the general and private vote.

B- In the event of a mismatch between the results of the electronic counting and sorting and the manual counting and sorting in the same polling station by less than 5%, the results of the manual counting and sorting shall be approved.

C- In the event that the results of the electronic manual counting and sorting do not match the results of the manual counting by 5% or more of the total valid papers inside the box, the station is transferred to the central audit center in the governorate for the purpose of auditing the station and re-counting and manual sorting. The Commission approves the results of the manual counting and sorting of ballot papers in Provincial audit center.

D- In the event that the results are not sent by the results accelerator to the results tabulation center for a period of (6) six hours, the boxes whose results were not sent through the transmission medium are transferred to the central audit centers in the governorate to take the procedures approved by the Commission and the results of manual counting and sorting are approved.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency