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Article 106
 

The votes cast by the deputies are counted by the members of the Counting Commission without break till the obtainment of the results of the voting.


The counting commission, on the basis of the list of deputies registered for participation in the sitting, determines the total number of deputies taking part in the sitting and the number of deputies who received the ballots.On the basis of the ballots contained in the ballot box, the Counting Commission determines the total number of deputies who took part in the vote, the number of votes for each of the candidates for members of the Council of the Republic and the number of votes given against all candidates for deputy (if the voting was held on one candidate – the number of votes given against the candidate), and the number of ballots declared invalid.


The ballots differing from the established form and also ballots in which the sign is put in more squares than the number of members of the Council of the Republic that shall be elected from the region or the city of Minsk or the sign is not put in no one of them, or ballots in which the surname of only one candidate is included and the sign is put in two squares or not put in any of them, and also the ballotg the reverse side of which does not have signatures of the persons who are members of the Counting Commission are declared invalid.


The results of vote counting are considered at the sitting of the counting commission and put down in the protocol.It is not allowed to fill in the protocol in pencil or make any correction in it.


The protocol is drawn up in two copies signed by all members of the counting commission.


Following thisation of the report by the counting commission, the sitting of deputies takes a decision by open voting on approval of the voting results.


The candidate who has received more than half of the votes of deputies who have taken part in the ballot is deemed to be elected member of the Council of the Republic.


If when holding elections the established number of members of the Council of the Republic to be elected from the region or the city of Minsk was not elected in the term determined by the Central Commission, the repeated elections are held in the order specified in Section VI of this Code.


The protocol of the counting commission encloses the list of deputies of local Council of Deputies of the base level of the region or of the deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies who have taken part in the sitting, and separate opinions, if any, of the members of the counting commission and statements of other persons about the violations of the provisions of this Code, committed in the course of the voting and vote counting and decisions taken thereon.


The original copies of the decision of the sitting of deputies of local Council of Deputies of the base level of the region or of deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies, approving the results of the voting for the election of the members of the Council of the Republic, the protocol of the sitting of the counting committee with the list of the deputies who have taken part in the sitting are submitted to the Central Commission within two days.