Only Invalid Portions of Ballot Rejected; Blank Ballots and Improperly Marked Ballots are

Not “Votes Cast” for Calculating a Majority. If a voter indicates either:

(a)by placing the voter’s marks in the voting ovals or other defined spaces provided adjacent to the names of any candidates or nominees; or

(b)by writing the names of persons for an office in the blank line spaces provided; or

(c)by a combination of both, the choice of more than there are candidates or nominees to be elected or certified for any office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine the voter’s choice for any office, the voter’s ballot shall not be counted for that office, but the remainder of the voter’s ballot, if properly marked, shall be counted. A ballot that is blank, or that is marked with more candidates or nominees than are to be nominated or elected, shall not be included as part of the base for determining what constitutes a majority in each election requiring a candidate or nominee to garner a majority of votes in order to be nominated or elected.