being required to be used for the return of any prior candidate. The number of candidates named on a voting-paper, including the candidate first named, must not be greater than the number of vacancies;
(iv.) A candidate, in order that he may be returned at an election, must (subject as herein-after in this Act expressly provided) have given for him a number of voting-papers (herein-after in this Act referred to as the "quota") to be found by dividing the total number of voting-papers given at the election by the number of vacancies to be filled at the election (the fraction, if any, remaining from the division being disregarded);
(v.) A voting-paper shall be filled up in writing by the elector at the polling booth, provided that the returning officer shall, at the request of an elector who states that he is unable to write, fill up the voting-paper of such elector as he directs;
(vi.) Every voting-paper shall be void which either—
(a.) Contains the names of more candidates than there are vacancies, or
(b.) Contains any mark by which the elector can be identified;
and a void voting-paper shall not be counted or deemed to have been given.
11. After the close of a poll the voting-papers shall be dealt with by the returning officer as follows:
(i.) He shall cause the voting-papers to be collected, and shall ascertain the total number of voting-papers, exclusive of void voting, papers and of voting-papers on which no candidate is legibly named. His decision as to whether a voting-paper is void or a name is illegible shall be final, subject to reversal on a petition;
(ii.) He shall ascertain and declare the quota necessary for the return of a member;
(iii.) He shall arrange the voting-papers given for the several candidates in separate parcels, and shall in the parcel of each candidate sort his voting-papers according to the numbers of names upon them, placing at the top those voting-papers in which no other candidate is designated, and then those in succession in which the fewest other candidates are designated, and placing last those in which the greatest number of other candidates are designated;
(iv.) He shall proceed to make one or more scrutinies (as the case may require) according to the provisions herein-after in this Act contained;
(v.) He shall give to each candidate, on application by him or his agent, two orders of admission to the place where a scrutiny is to be made, and each such order shall entitle the bearer to be present at the ascertaining of the number of voting-papers, and of the quota, and at any scrutiny.
