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Article 78
 

The district, city and district-in-the-city commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, on the basis of the protocols received from the precinct commissions and compiled in accordance with the requirements of Article 55 of this Code, establishes:


the total number of voter for the district, city or district in the city, 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, the number of voters who have taken part in voting at the place of location and the number of voters who have taken part in the voting on the day of elections in the premises of the 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 ballots issued to precinct commissions;


the number of spoiled ballots; and


the number of unused ballots.


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.


The regional or the Minsk City commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, on the basis of the protocols received from the respective district, city and district-in-the-city commissions, establishes:


the total number of voters for the region and the city of Minsk;


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 ballots issued to the respective district, city and district-in-the-city commissions;


the number of spoiled ballots; and


the number of unused ballots.


The regional or the Minsk City commission establishes at its sitting the results of voting for the region and the Minsk city and draws up the protocol thereabout.The protocol shall be signed by the chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary and members of the commission and shall, not later than four days 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 Central Commission and to the bodies that formed the regional or the Minsk City commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus for information.


The protocols of the commissions forwarded to the superior commissions enclose, if any, special opinions of the members of the commission and statements of authorized persons of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus and of other persons on violations of the requirements of this Code and decisions of the commissions taken on them.


In case of detection by the bodies that formed the district, city, district-in-the-city, regional or the Minsk City commission of violations of the requirements of this Code and of other acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus made in the course of the voting or during the count of votes, that information is immediately notified to the respective superior commission or the Central Commission.