to validate the vote?
Validation of results As soon as possible after election day, each returning officer conducts the validation of the results. To do so, the returning officer must have received the ballot boxes from all polling stations in the electoral district. If, on the date the validation is scheduled to take place, all ballot boxes have not been received, the returning officer must postpone the validation, from day to day, for up to seven days, until all ballot boxes are received. Further adjournments may also take place if, after the seven days, all ballot boxes have still not been received; this further period cannot exceed two weeks. Such a series of adjournments is very unlikely to occur, but if it did the last validation of results would be conducted on July 26, 2004. At the 2000 general election, the last validation of results took place 10 days following election day. Return of the writs On the seventh day following the validation of results, the returning officer must declare the winning c
