Section 222: Validity of votes – Secrecy of the ballot – Votes expressed on verso
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
222. Validity of votes – Secrecy of the ballot – Votes expressed on verso
of ballot paper invalid—At a Parliamentary election certain votes were expressed otherwise than by a cross namely by a stroke on the ballot paper or
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by a cross on the dividing line separating 2 candidates’ names with one of
the names boldly underlined. In a third case the crosses were found to have
been made on the reverse side of the ballot paper which, due to the transparency of the paper or to the heavy impression, allowed the symbols of the
candidates to appear on the verso and over the similar symbols of which the
crosses had been made.
HELD in the first 2 instances, the votes as expressed were validly cast
whereas in the third case, the vote was invalid as not having been marked
on the face of the ballot paper. Bappoo v Bhugaloo (1978).