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Article 119
 

Determination of Referendum Results for a Region, a Town or a Town District

 

On the basis of the records, received from the precinct commissions on the referendum, and prepared as stipulated in Article 55 of this Code, the regional, town, and town district commissions on the referendum shall establish:

the total number of citizens in the region, the town , and the town district, having the right to take part in the referendum;

the number of citizens, who received ballot papers;

the number of citizens, who have taken part in the vote;

the number of persons who voted in favour of the question (draft decision) offered for the referendum, and the number of persons who voted against its approval;

the number of invalid ballot papers;

the number of ballot papers issued to the precinct commissions on the referendum;

the number of spoiled ballot papers; and

the number of unused ballot papers.

 

The referendum results for regions, towns and town districts shall be determined at the sittings of the region, town and town district committees on the referendum and recorded in the record. The record shall be signed by the chairman, the deputy chairman, the secretary and the members of the respective commission on the referendum and submitted immediately, but not later than two days after the completion of the vote, by the chairman, or the deputy chairman, or the committee secretary in person to the Minsk City Commission on the referendum, and to the bodies, which set up the Commission, for notification. The district commissions on the referendum in the towns under the Oblast jurisdiction, divided into districts, shall submit the record to the respective town commissions on the referendum, which shall determine the results of the referendum for the town and immediately submit the record to the respective Oblast commissions and to the bodies, which set up the Commission, for notification. The record forwarded to the Oblast and the Minsk City Commission on the referendum shall enclose, if any, special opinions of the members of the commissions and application of other persons on violations made in the course of the vote or during the count of votes and the decisions taken on them by the commission.

 

Should the bodies, which established the commission, find any violations of this Code or other legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus, committed in the course of the vote or ballot-count procedures, it shall immediately bring such cases to the notice of the higher commission on the referendum, or the Central Commission.