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Article 102
 

Assessment of the validity of a vote in a poll.



  • A vote cast in a polling session in an election to the Althingi, a municipal election or a presidential election shall be deemed to be invalid if:


a. the ballot paper is blank,


b. the voter has not placed a cross in the box, cf. paragraph 1 of Article 85 and paragraph 1 of Article 86,


c. it is not possible to see with certainty which candidate list or candidate the voter wished to cast the vote for,


d. a mark or writing on the ballot paper may be inferred to have been added intentionally to make the ballot paper identifiable,


e. the ballot paper is not the one that the National Electoral Commission or the senior electoral commission of the municipality has had produced under Chapter XI.