While holding the elections of members of the Council of Republic each participant of the sitting votes in person.It is not allowed to vote for other deputies.

The ballots are filled in inside a booth or a room for secret voting.When voting the participant of the sitting puts any sign in an empty squares placed on the right from the surname of the candidates he votes for, but not more than in eight squares or in the square placed on the right from the line “Against all candidates”.If the ballot contains the surname of only one candidate, during the voting for the candidate the participant of the sitting puts any sign in the square under the word «for» and while voting against the candidate puts any sign in the square under the word «against».

A deputy drops the filled ballot into the ballot box.The ballot boxes shall be in sight of all members of the declarations on income and property and of the persons mentioned in part four of Article 13 of this Code.