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Article 156
 

§ 1. The chairman and one of the members of the committee after having mixed all the ballot papers the vote counting station is responsible for, shall unfold them and classify them according to the following categories:


1° ballot papers with votes in favor of the first list or in favor of candidates from that list;
2° The same shall be done for the second and any further list if existing;
3° suspicious ballot papers;
4° blank ballot papers or invalid ballot papers.


After this first classification the valid ballot papers of each of the lists will be divided into the following four subcategories:


1° the ballot papers labeled on top;
2° the ballot papers marked exclusively in favor of one or several incumbent candidates
3° the ballot papers with votes for one or more or the incumbent candidates as well as for one or more or the substitute candidates;
4° the ballot papers which are exclusively in favor or one or several or the supplant candidates.


The ballot papers that are marked on top and are in favor or one or several current candidates, or in favor or one or several current and supplant candidates are classified in the second or third subcategory.


The ballot papers marked on top and in favor or one or several supplant candidates are classified into the forth subcategory.


§1/1. For the election to the Chamber of Representatives every vote counting site of the electoral district of Rhode-Saint-Genèse classifies the ballot papers into two categories:


1° the ballot papers in favor of a list of candidates in the constituency of Flemish Brabant;
2° the ballot papers in favor of a list of candidates in the constituency of Brussels Region.


In this electoral district, the model table as described in article 161, para 2 shall be drawn in two examples: one mentioning the results of the tallying of the votes in the electoral constituency of Brussels Region and the second example mentioning the results of the tallying of the votes in the electoral constituency of Flemish-Brabant.


In the same electoral district, the district electoral committee shall draw a capitulatory table that resembles the two examples mentioned in article 161, para 8.


All examples of the model table and the capitulatory table mentioned in para 2 and 3 shall be drawn in Dutch.


§ 2. Abrogated.