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Paragraph 19

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The returning officer shall make arrangements for counting the votes and the count shall be proceeded with as expeditiously as possible. Any ballot paper on which the elector has voted for more than, in the case of the first election, three candidates or, in the case of subsequent elections, one candidate or which, in the opinion of the returning officer, has not been sufficiently clearly marked, shall be disregarded.