If official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system, at which level results are entered into an electronic tabulation system?

Bhutan

Bhutan

Answer
  • Polling station level, offline
  • Between polling station level and central level (see comments)
  • National (central) EMB level
Source

Handbook for Counting Supervisors

Page. 15-17

Stages of Counting

The counting of votes will be carriedout in four stages (refer Fig. 5.1). The first stage of counting will be in thecounting center for the polling area. The Presiding Officer designated by theReturning Officer as Counting Supervisor assisted by the Counting Assistantwill count the EVM votes cast in the polling station and transmits the resultby SMS format to National Counting Center and to the Assistant ReturningOfficer and than to the Returning Officer.

The second stage of counting will be atthe Demkhong Counting Center. Here the Assistant Returning Officer will receivethe Postal Ballot Paper votes for the Demkhong. Thereafter the AssistantReturning Officer assisted by the Counting Supervisor will count the PostalBallot Paper votes and consolidated it with the results of the EVM votes basedon the result sheet received from the various counting centers. The FinalResult Sheet so prepared will be immediately transmitted to the ReturningOfficer’s office at the Dzongkhag and than to the National Counting Center byFacsimile. The original will be hand carried and delivered by the CountingSupervisor in person.

The third stage will be at theReturning Officer office where the final result sheet of the variousconstituencies for different posts received from the Assistant ReturningOfficers throughout the Dzongkhag will be publish result of count and the sameauthenticated copy will be transmitted to the National Counting Center.

The fourth stageof counting will be at the National Counting Center where the final resultsheet of the Demkhong of different Dzongkhag received from the ReturningOfficers throughout the country will be counted and consolidated.

Source:http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HandbookforCountingSupervisor.pdf

Comment
Electronic tabulation is used in all the stages, please see the sources for complete description of the procedure. 
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