These rules apply to both manual and electronic counting of ballot papers and state the reasons why a ballot should be rejected if it does not bear the official marks, if votes are given for more than one candidate or party, if anything on the paper can identify the voter, or if they are unmarked or void for uncertainty.
On Monday, Commons Speaker John Bercow warned the security of the ballot could be threatened by Friday counting and demanded an end to the "passive acceptance" of the practice.
In the last election, they even saw examples of ballot boxes and ballot counting not going right.
Its board is counting dimpled chads even when the rest of the ballot contains clean holes, and is even taking into consideration which party the voter supported in other races.
The process of accounting for all ballot papers cast in the elections is about to end and counting should start soon in the 14 constituencies of Masvingo province.
Oltmanns and Rosas lead a tight-lipped team of accountants who conduct the same ballot-counting method that they have used for decades.
Changes in ballot design and the introduction of electronic counting possibly led, either directly or indirectly, to an increase in rejected ballots.
PVTs, which are based on observed ballot-counting at a statistically significant number of polling stations, work particularly well with a mechanism for ensuring an honest vote count (or exposing a dishonest one) in circumstances that prevent monitors from observing every polling station.
The ballot is conducted under the direction of a "chief counting officer", who will be responsible for appointing local counting officers.
It is time that Islamabad facilitates the operation of a rigorous election monitoring mechanism -- both domestic and international -- that can guarantee the sanctity of the ballot and allows election experts to conduct exit polls to insure that the counting reflects the voting.
Ballot-box hanky-panky is also much harder in an age of machine voting (the controversy in 2000 was not over intentional fraud, but counting rules and ballot design).
Returning officers agreed individual user agreements with the e-counting provider that set out how their count was to be conducted and retained the statutory responsibility for the count of ballot papers.
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