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Article 128
 

§ 1. The list of candidates are registered in the ballot papers one after the other. Each list of candidates is headed with a small box reserved for voting, and the ordinal number printed in Arabic numeral having at least one centimeter of height and 4 millimeters of thickness, as well as the acronym or logo from the presentation of the candidates compliant to article 116, § 4, sentence 2; the acronym or the logo of the list are one centimeter higher and 3 centimeters wider and is angled horizontally.


Before the name and first name of each candidate on the list there is an ordinal number and behind it a small box to vote. The name of each candidate is mentioned first of all and written in capital letters. The first name follows and with the exception of the initial, written in lower case letters.


The small boxes reserved for the vote are black and have in the middle a small circle the color of paper and a diameter of 4 millimeters.


The name and the first name of the incumbent candidates are enlisted in the order of the presentations in the column reserved for the list they belong to.


The mention « substitute » is written above the name and first name of the candidates on the substitute positions.


The lists are classified in the ballot paper in their numeral order.


§ 2. Abrogated.


§ 3. The committee proceeds to the decision on the ballot paper for the elections to the Chamber of Representatives, compliant to the models IIa), IIb), IIc) and IIcbis) attached to the present Code.


The central electoral committee of the constituency for the election of this assembly takes into consideration the numeral order attributed during the drawing by lot mentioned in article 115bis, § 2, 1st sentence.


The committee proceeds afterwards with a drawing by lot starting with the complete lists in order to assign an ordinal number to the lists that for the moment do not have one.


The drawing by lot mentioned in the previous sentence is to be carried out between the numbers that immediately follow the highest number allotted in the drawing by lot mentioned in article 115bis, 115bis, § 2, 1st sentence.


The chairman of the central electoral committee of the electoral constituency of Regional Brussels immediately sends a copy of the model of the ballot paper for the election to the Chamber of Representatives, to the chairman of the central electoral committee of the constituency of Flemish Brabant to be printed.


The latter includes on the ballot papers for the electoral district of Rhode-Saint-Genèse, the list of candidates presented in the central electoral committee of the electoral constituency of Brussels Region and those presented in the central electoral committee of the electoral constituency of Flemish Braband.


For this, the ballot paper is prepared compliant to the model IIcbis), attached to the present Code.


§ 4. The committee may if necessary decide to put two or more incomplete lists in the same column. If this happens, it determines the order of these columns and the numbers of the lists in the columns in a special drawing by lot.


§ 5. If an electoral district consists of municipalities of different linguistic systems, the ballot paper is monolingual in the monolingual municipalities and bilingual in the other municipalities.