They should also ensure that voters complete ballot papers in secret and then seal them personally.
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Traditionally, only ballot papers marked with a cross in the appropriate space are registered.
Tory party members have until noon on 11 September to return their ballot papers.
This required running all the ballot papers through the counting machines again, and setting aside the rejects.
Sheikha HAYA RASHED AL KHALIFA (President, United Nations General Assembly): Ballot papers marked (unintelligible) will now be distributed.
The total number of rejected ballot papers in 1999 was 7, 839 in constituency contests and 7, 268 in list contests.
It comes as ballot papers are sent to 20, 000 workers over strike action.
He went on to give examples of undelivered ballot papers and dubious practices.
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Ballot papers will have anti-forgery features, and voting booths will have proper privacy.
The turnout in Derbyshire was 34.9% and there were 887 spoiled ballot papers out of a total 210, 552 votes cast.
No matter, Mr Orban, unabashed, is backing a referendum initiative aimed at preserving ballot papers so that they can be recounted.
Voters are given a clutch of ballot papers at the polling station, each one with a different candidate's name and colour.
Voters will be encouraged to post or deliver their ballot papers themselves.
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Ballot papers have been sent out in the Plaid Cymru leadership election.
It said the names of all five nominated candidates would appear on ballot papers and that the election count would not be affected.
In Coventry, the Liberal Democrat candidate, Ayoub Khan, polled just 783 votes, even failing to match the number of spoilt ballot papers (884).
The high turnout, around 80%, put many longer-established democracies to shame, though the counting was marred by a Florida-style kerfuffle over spoiled ballot papers.
However, the candidates will have already been sieved at the party primaries and their natural first choices might be missing from the ballot papers.
Perhaps reflecting that disillusionment, 2 million French voters deliberately spoiled their ballot papers after Marine Le Pen said that was what she would do.
The director of the Ecuadorean Business Committee, Roberto Aspiazu, said most business leaders would vote "no" to the changes or spoil their ballot papers.
The Scotland Office is responsible for the election rules for rejecting ballot papers, as laid out in the Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2007.
Mr Gould, who is the former assistant chief electoral officer of Canada, was allowed, along with his team, to scrutinise the rejected ballot papers.
The Electoral Commission has launched an inquiry after the election was marred by technical problems, delays and a high level of spoiled ballot papers.
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There, the punch card system gave rise to dimpled ballots and hanging chads, leaving electoral officials to scrutinise ballot papers to decipher the voter's intention.
Ballot papers bearing no crosses but marked with the words "I agree" or "OK" would be also considered valid, as would those bearing several crosses.
Of the 2, 427 ballot papers issued to residents, 33% were returned.
The opposition complained that 3m extra ballot papers had been printed.
He also issued a call for the Scottish Parliament and local government elections to be held on separate days, with different ballot papers to stop confusion.
The guidelines, which are supported by all the main political parties, advises candidates and campaigners not to handle postal ballot papers or to help voters complete them.
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It also said there should be two separate ballot papers for Holyrood constituency and regional list votes and there must be less meddling by officials and politicians.
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