Federal Act
on Political Rights
(PRA)¹

¹ Where a bal­lot pa­per con­tains few­er val­id votes for can­did­ates than the num­ber of seats in the Na­tion­al Coun­cil al­loc­ated to the con­stitu­ency, the lines that have not been com­pleted on the bal­lot pa­per count as ad­di­tion­al votes for the elect­or­al list whose des­ig­na­tion or ref­er­ence num­ber is entered on the bal­lot pa­per. In the ab­sence of a des­ig­na­tion or ref­er­ence num­ber, or if the bal­lot pa­per con­tains more than one of the eli­gible list des­ig­na­tions or ref­er­ence num­bers, the un­com­pleted lines are not coun­ted (blank votes).

² Where more than one re­gion­al list with the same des­ig­na­tion has been sub­mit­ted in any can­ton, ad­di­tion­al votes on a bal­lot pa­per that does not des­ig­nate the re­gion are coun­ted to­wards the list re­lat­ing to the re­gion in which the bal­lot pa­per is handed in.⁶⁶

^2bis In the case of the oth­er pos­sible ap­plic­a­tions of Art­icle 31 para­graph 1^bis, the ad­di­tion­al votes are coun­ted to­wards the list whose des­ig­na­tion is entered on the bal­lot pa­per.⁶⁷ The ad­di­tion­al votes on in­suf­fi­ciently des­ig­nated bal­lot pa­pers are coun­ted to­wards the elect­or­al list that has been de­clared to be the par­ent list by the group.⁶⁸

³ Names that do not ap­pear on any elect­or­al list per­tain­ing to the con­stitu­ency are de­leted. ...⁶⁹

⁴ Where there is a con­tra­dic­tion between the elect­or­al list des­ig­na­tion and the ref­er­ence num­ber, the elect­or­al list des­ig­na­tion shall take pre­ced­ence.