The following rules shall govern the counting and recounting of votes:
1. If the name of any person is written on a ballot, the name shall not be counted;
2. A valid vote shall be any mark prescribed by the Secretary of the State Election Board made by voters indicating the voter's choice of party, candidate or issue on a ballot. Such marking shall be hereinafter referred to as "valid markings". Such valid markings located otherwise on the ballot shall not be counted;
3. Marks used to designate the intention of the voter, other than those herein defined as valid markings, shall not be counted;
4. Failure to properly mark a ballot as to one or more candidates or questions shall not of itself invalidate the entire ballot if the same has been properly marked as to other candidates or questions;
5. A valid marking marked for a political party shall be counted as a vote for each of the political party's candidates on that ballot, except that a valid marking marked for a candidate's name shall take precedence, for that office, over a valid marking for a political party. Provided, further, that if valid markings are marked for more than one political party on a ballot, the ballot shall not be counted for any party offices thereon; and
6. Any ballot or part of a ballot on which it is impossible to determine the voter's choice of candidate shall be void as to the candidate or candidates thereby affected.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 153, § 7-127, operative Jan. 1, 1975. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 57, § 2, emerg. eff. March 17, 1978; Laws 1983, c. 171, § 11, emerg. eff. June 6, 1983; Laws 1991, c. 321, § 23, eff. March 1, 1992; Laws 2010, c. 189, § 16, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
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