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Article 98
 

(1) All items except for the blueprints shall be removed from the table before the opening of the ballot box.
(2) Only one member designated by the Committee shall have access to the envelopes and ballots under the monitoring and supervision of the other members.
(3) The ballot box shall be opened and the envelopes shall be taken out one by one, put with the front side down and counted.
(4) Where a second ballot box has been used in the voting process, it shall be opened after the envelopes from the first box are finished and the taking out and counting of envelopes shall continue.
(5) After the envelopes are counted, they shall be opened one by one and their contents shall be taken out.
(6) Envelopes and ballots shall be arranged in piles as follows:
1. a pile of envelopes which do not contain ballots of the approved format, including empty envelopes;
2. a pile of envelopes containing ballots of the approved format for different election tickets; these ballots are cancelled by writing the word "cancelled" thereon and put back into the envelope;
3. piles of ballots for election tickets from the envelopes under Art. 97, para 2; where the envelope contains two or more ballots of the approved format for the same election ticket, one of them is put on the pile of the respective ticket, while the other ballots are cancelled by writing the word "cancelled" thereon and put back into the envelope;
4. a pile of the envelopes under Art. 97, para 2.
(7) Where a dispute arises in connection with the content of an envelope, the case shall be described on the records.