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68 “yes” in the party square; ballots with a cross in the Republican circle and irregular marks across the face of four of the tickets; ballots with a cross in the Democratic circle and horizontal lines through the other five circles.

On the other hand, marks like the following have been held not to be fatal: a straight diagonal line which was apparently part of a cross which the voter forgot to complete; a dotlike mark made close to the end of a cross; a ballot with a cross unusually heavy; two crosses in the party circle; a cross mark in each column in which a candidate’s name appears; or a number of crosses in the voting space opposite the candidate’s name; writing by a voter on his ballot of the party affiliation of a candidate whose name he had also written in.