(1) When the voting is over, the polling supervisors and the appointed electors, cf. however section 78a, shall count the votes cast at the polling station. The counting is public. Separate counts shall be performed for the local election and the regional election by number of votes cast in the voting for each list of candidates.

(2) A vote is cast for the list of candidates within the field of which the voter has put his or her cross on the ballot paper. An advance vote is cast for the list of candidates whose list or letter designation a voter has indicated on the ballot paper. If, in the advance ballot paper, the voter has stated the name of a candidate, the vote shall be deemed to have been cast for the appropriate list of candidates.