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Article 68
 

68.-(1) When the voting is over, the polling supervisors and the appointed electors shall count the votes cast at the polling station. The counting is public. The number of votes cast for each party and for each independent candidate shall be counted.

(2) A vote is cast for the party within the field of which the voter has put his cross on the ballot paper. An advance vote is cast for the party, whose name or letter designation the voter has indicated on the ballot paper. If, on the advance ballot paper, the voter has stated the name of a candidate standing for a party, the vote shall be regarded as cast in favour of the party.

(3) A vote is cast for the independent candidate against whom the voter has put his cross on the ballot paper. An advance vote is cast for the independent candidate, whose name the voter has indicated on the ballot paper.