Section 102, The Public Elections Act, 2012

Upon the conclusion of the counting, the Returning Officershall– (a) prepare a statement to be called the Ballot Papers Account, which shall be in Form A prescribed in the Seventh Schedule; (b) seal up in separate packets the counted and the rejected ballot papers, and the ballot papers for each candidate shall be kept separate from those of any other candidate; (c) endorse on the outside of each packet the name of the candidate for whom the votes represented by the ballot papers were cast; (d) seal up in separate packets the marked copy of the Gazette List and any unused ballot papers; (e) prepare a statement to be called the “Verification of Ballot Papers”, which shall be in Form B in the Seventh Schedule and shall, on request by any candidate or his polling agent allow him to copy the statement. PART IX –ELECTION OF LOCAL COUNCILLORS