Art. 277. (1) (Suppl. - SG 104/22) The ballot box shall be opened, the paper ballots and the machine voting ballots shall be extracted one by one, shall be placed face down, and shall be counted.

(2) Where a spare ballot box has been used for the voting, the said ballot box shall be opened together with the first ballot box.

(3) The ballot papers from the mobile ballot box are placed on the table on the site under Art. 8, Para. 3 and the counting of the votes, including the drawing up of the tally sheet shall be effected as provided for in the present Section.