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Article 78
 

A vote shall be declared invalid:

a. if the ballot is unmarked,

b. if it is not possible to determine what list is indicated or if it is not possible to determine with certainty whether what is written on an absentee vote can apply to any of the lists of candidates,

c. if more than one list letter is marked or if names are numbered on more than one list or if more than one list letter is written on an absentee ballot,

d. if there is marking on a ballot exceeding that which is prescribed or unusual marking which can be assumed to have been made deliberately to make the ballot recognisable,

e. if the ballot is not the one which the election board or director has legally handed over,

[f. if the envelope of an absentee ballot contains anything more than one ballot.]1)

1) Act No. 27/2002, Art. 22.