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Article 117
 

Types of votes and criteria for evaluating a vote

1. Ballot papers are to be divided into valid and invalid votes. 

2. Only ballot papers on which a vote clearly has been cast for only one of the electoral subjects or for a political party that is a member of a coalition on the respective ballot paper are valid votes. 

3. Invalid votes are ballot papers where:

a) the ballot paper does not have the same size, colour or format as the ballot paper approved by the CEC;

b) the stamps provided in article 103 of this Code are missing from the ballot paper;

c) notations or signs have been made on the ballot paper that make the evaluation of the vote impossible;

ç) notations in favour or in disfavour of certain electoral subjects have been made to the ballot paper;

d) there is a vote for more than one of the electoral subjects on the ballot paper;

dh) no electoral subject is voted for on the ballot paper;

e) it is not clear for whom the vote has been cast; or

ë) the voter has voted for a person or a subject that is not on the ballot paper.