Determination of Referendum Results for Oblasts and the City of Minsk
On the basis of the records, received from the region, town or town district commissions on the referendum, the region, town or town district committees on the referendum shall determine:
the total number of citizens in the Oblast and the City of Minsk, 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) submitted to 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 region, town and town district commissions on the referendum;
the number of spoiled ballot papers; and
the number of unused ballot papers.
The referendum results for the Oblasts and the City of Minsk shall be determined at the sittings of the Oblast commission on the referendum and the Minsk City commission 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 Oblast commission on the referendum and the Minsk city commission on the referendum and submitted not later than three days after the completion of the vote by the chairman, or the deputy chairman, or the commission secretary in person to the Central Commission and to the body, which set up the Oblast commission on the referendum and the Minsk City commission on the referendum, 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 Oblast commission on the referendum and the Minsk City commission on the referendum, reveal 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 Central Commission.
