Invalid ballot paper

(1) The empty official ballot paper is considered invalid when

1. the entries made by the voter do not allow a clear decision as to which party the voter in question intended to vote for, or

2. a party has been indicated, from which no provincial list of candidates has been published in the provincial constituency in the electoral roll of a municipality of which the voter concerned is entered, or

3. no party and no candidate have been indicated, or 

4. only one candidate has been indicated, who does not however feature on the party list of the party which the voter is voting for, or

5. the number of the provincial constituency and the letter of the regional constituency (§ 68, para 1, next to the last sentence) were either not entered at all or were not clearly identifiable.

(2) The regulations set out in § 81, para 1, item 1 and 2 as well as paras 2 and 3 are to be applied accordingly.