Immediately after the votes have been counted, the chairperson shall announce in respect of each list both the number of votes cast for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. He shall also announce the number of blank and invalid votes cast. Verbal objections may be made by the voters present.
Thereafter the ballot papers bearing blank votes and the ballot papers declared invalid shall be placed in packets, which shall then be sealed. On these packets shall be stated:
(a) the name of the municipality and the number of the polling station;
(b) the number of ballot papers that the packet contains.
Subsequently, the valid ballot papers, arranged by list, shall be placed in one or more packets, which shall then be sealed.
On each packet as referred to in subsection 3 shall be stated:
(a) the name of the municipality and the number of the polling station;
(b) the number of ballot papers that the packet contains, and if the ballot papers have been placed in more than one packet, the numbers of the lists to which the enclosed ballot papers relate.
