Are official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system?

Act No. 24 from 16 May 2000 Concerning Parliamentary Elections to the Althing

Article 99

Then, in the presence of these persons, the senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]1)will open the packages with the ballots from each polling ward, but only after they have had an opportunity to make sure that all seals are unbroken. The senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]1)shall check if the number of voters who have cast their votes according to the election log books of the local electoral commissions corresponds with the number of delivered ballot papers and the notes that were entered by the local electoral commissions. If the senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]1)has received a letter with pre-election votes pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 90, it should be treated as stated in paragraph 2 of the same Article. As soon as each ballot box is opened, the ballot papers contained therein shall be tipped without being inspected into a suitable empty container, but care must be taken that ballot papers from individual polling wards are mixed well together. The ballot papers shall then be removed from the container in the presence of the agents of the lists, listed according to the letters of the alphabet of the lists which have been marked on each ballot paper, and then counted under the direction of the senior electoral commission [or the regional electoral commission]. It is permitted to begin the classification of the votes and to prepare counting them in camera before the polling session ends.

Article 103

When the votes have been added up under the watchful supervision of the agents, the regional electoral commission presents the result of its counting to the senior electoral commission, which enters the results of the election into the record of the minutes and announces it to those present. It should be ensured that the sum total of the votes corresponds to the number of those who have cast their votes in the constituency according to the reports of the local electoral commissions, and that everything corresponds to the sum of the left-over papers. If the counting was done by the regional electoral commission, it shall, after having completed its commission, send all used ballot papers under seal to the senior electoral commission, and the valid and invalid ballot papers shall be kept separate. In addition, it will send under seal to the senior electoral commission the following items: those pre-election ballots that are to go to the polling ward that comes under the senior electoral commission, cf. paragraph 4 of Article 90; all the electoral registers in sealed packaging; the election log books of the local electoral commissions which it has received; and also its own record of minutes. The senior electoral commission shall handle these materials in the same manner as those that are in its custody.]

Article 105

In each constituency all the votes which each electoral list gets shall be counted, and then the number of votes for each list. Furthermore, the senior electoral commission shall calculate the number of votes for each candidate according to Article 110. The Senior electoral commission shall immediately send to the National Electoral Commission a report concerning vote numbers. It shall indicate the number of voters on the electoral register, the number of votes cast for each electoral list, and the numbers of votes for each candidate. The National Electoral Commission provides the senior electoral commissions with the forms for these reports.