What Happens to Ballots After an Election

Latvia's Central Election Commission (CEC), the state body that organises elections, keeps one set of sample ballots after each election. They are retained as a memento and as historical evidence of the vote in question.

The remaining ballots raise a separate question: what happens to them once voting is over. These include both the ballots filled in by voters and those that were left unused.

This question is the basis of the report, which looks at how the bulk of ballots that are not kept as samples are handled after an election. The excerpt available does not give details of the rules for storing or destroying them.