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 officialmarks, 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.
It was the first quarter of economic contraction since 2009, and is halfway to the two straight quarters of negative GDP that is the official line that marks a recession.