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Article 79
 

If a voter encircles only the ordinal number to the left of the name of the slate, and does not cast a preferred vote in favour of a particular candidate, the ballot is valid.


If a voter encircles the ordinal number for a particular slate and casts a preferred vote in favour of a candidate from another slate, the ballot shall be valid and the preferred vote shall not be accepted.


If a voter casts his/her preferred vote to two or more candidates on a single slate, the ballot shall be valid in relation to the vote for the slate, regardless whether the ordinal number next to the slate is encircled or not, while the preferred votes for candidates shall not be accepted.


If a voter casts a preferred vote in favour of a candidate from a particular slate and does not encircle the ordinal number to the left of the slate concerned, the ballot shall be valid both in terms of the vote for the slate and in terms of the preferred vote for the candidate from such slate.


If a voter casts a preferred vote in favour of candidates from different slates and encircles the ordinal number to the left of one of such slates, the ballot shall be valid in terms of the vote for the slate and for the preferred vote from such slate if the voter cast only one preferred vote in favour of such slate.


With Article 38 of the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Elections of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Official Gazette 19/15), which entered into force on 25 February 2015, Article 79.a was added.