Glossary term
Tally sheet
Definition
The signed record of a polling station’s count — the primary document against which any later aggregate can be checked, and the first thing to secure.
See also
Protocol (protokół)
The official record produced by a polling-station commission of the votes counted there — the primary building block of an election result.
Tabulation
The aggregation of counted votes up from polling stations to the national total — the stage where transcription errors and, in falsification cases, deliberate alteration occur.
Parallel vote tabulation (PVT)
An independent count built from observers’ copies of polling-station results, statistically sampled — it can confirm or contradict an official total on election night.
Published September 22, 2026
Share links open the network’s own composer. Nothing is embedded here, so no third party learns which pages you read.