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Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus [Amended as of June 4, 2015]

Article 55
Count of votes at the voting precinct when holding elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, deputies of the House of Representatives and deputies of local Councils of Deputies and the referendum

Opening of the ballot boxes and counting of votes when holding the elections carried out in the following order: first the ballots kept in the ballot box used during early voting shall be counted, then those kept in portable boxes used for voting at the place of location of voters or participants in the referendum and, after that, in ballot boxes kept on the day of elections or referendum in the room of the voting precinct. The results of counting of votes are announced by the chairperson of the commission.

After completing the counting of votes, the sitting of the precinct commission shall be held where the results of the counting of votes shall be established and put in the protocol. In the protocol besides the data determined in parts five and six of this Article the number of ballots received by the precinct commission, the number of spoilt ballot, the number of ballot not used are to be mentioned. In case of elections of deputies of local Councils of Deputies, the protocol shall be made separately for each electoral circuit. When two or more referendums are held at the same time, a protocol is to be drawn up for each of them separately. Filling in the protocol with a pencil and introducing of any corrections are not allowed. The protocol is signed by the chairperson, the deputy chairperson, the secretary and the members of the commission. At the sitting of the precinct commission special opinions, if any, as well as complaints and applications about violations by voting or by counting the votes are to be considered.

A copy of the protocol of the precinct commission after its signing shall be put up for general familiarization in the place determined by the commission.

In case of elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus or the republican or the regional or Minsk City referendum, the protocol shall be submitted, after establishment of the results of count of votes, in person by the chairperson or the deputy chairperson or the secretary of the precinct commission to the respective district, city or district-in-the-city commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus and on the referendum, whereas in case of elections of deputies of the House of Representatives or deputies of local Councils of Deputies to the respective circuit or territorial electoral commission as well as to the body that formed the commission for information. The protocol forwarded to the superior commission is to be accompanied, if any, by special opinions of the members of the commission, declarations of the authorized persons of candidates and other persons on violations committed in the course of voting or during the count of votes and decisions take on them by the commission.

Article 78
Establishment of the results of voting in territorial commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus

The district, city and district-in-the-city commission establishes at its sitting the results of voting for the district, city and district in the city and draws the protocol. The protocol shall be signed by the chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary and members of the commission and shall, not later than in the third day after the end of voting, be handed over in person by the chairperson or the deputy chairperson or the secretary of the commission to the respective regional or the Minsk City commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus and to the bodies that formed the commission for information.

Article 79
Establishment and publication of the results of elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus

The Central Commission, on the basis of records of regional and the Minsk city commissions on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, not later than ten days after the end of voting, establishes at its sitting and writes down in the protocol the following data:

• the total number of voters for the Republic of Belarus;
• the number of voters who have received ballots;
• the number of voters who have taken part in the voting, including the number of voters who have taken part in early voting at the place of location, and the number of voters who have taken part in voting on the day of elections in the premises of voting precinct;
• the number of votes given for each candidate for the President of the Republic of Belarus and the number of votes given against all candidates (if the voting was held by one candidate – the number of votes given against the candidate);
• the number of ballots recognized as invalid; the number of spoiled ballots; and the number of unused ballots

The protocol is signed by the chairperson, the deputy chairperson, the secretary and the members of the Central Commission.