290.1. The scrutiny and count of each federal election, and in the case of a single polling station in every federal and local election, will be made in accordance with the following rules:

a) The secretary of the directive board of the polling station will count the leftover ballots and render them useless through two diagonal stripes in ink, will store them in a special envelope which will remain closed, and will note down on the outside of the same the number of ballots contained therein;

b) The first scrutineer will count twice the number of citizens who appear to have voted according to the nominal list of voters in the section, adding, where applicable, the number of voters who voted by a ruling of the Electoral Tribunal without appearing in the nominal list;

c) The president of the directive board will open the ballot box, will take out the ballots and will show to the attendees that the ballot box is empty;

d) The second scrutineer will count the ballots taken out from the ballot box;

e) The two scrutineers, under the supervision of the president, will classify the ballots to determine:

1. The number of votes cast in favor of each of the political parties or candidates, and


2. The number of invalid votes, and

f) The secretary will record the results of each of the operations set out in the previous sections on sheets arranged for this purpose, which, once verified by the other members of the directive board, he will include in the respective scrutiny and count certificate of each election.

290.2. In the case of coalition parties, if more than one of their respective emblems are crossed, the vote will be assigned to the candidate of the coalition, which must be entered in the respective section of the corresponding scrutiny and count certificate.