74Procedures for electronic counting

74 Procedures for electronic counting

(1) If votes are counted using electronic counting equipment, the election manager may determine that a reference in Division 6 or 7 of Part 8 of the Act to the physical arrangement or movement of ballot‑papers is not applicable if the equivalent process is performed electronically.

(2) The election manager may decide to separate disallowed ballot-papers before preferences are electronically recorded and not to make an electronic record of disallowed ballot-papers.

(3) The election manager must ensure that any scrutineer present at the count who wishes to observe the electronic recording of the preferences on ballot-papers by an election official is not prevented from doing so.

(4) Before calculating the result, the election manager must reconcile the electronic record of ballot‑papers with the total number of ballot‑papers received.