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54 an eligible candidate are legal and should be counted, whether the candidate was nominated or not, and if any eligible person receives the requisite number of votes he is legally elected. In assemblies where a majority of all votes cast is required to elect, all votes cast for ineligible candidates should be counted in determining the number of votes cast (unless the voters had notice of the ineligibility of the candidate before voting), but when an ineligible candidate receives the requisite number of votes to elect, there must be a new election.

In determining how many votes have been cast, blanks should not be counted, because by casting a blank the member shows that he has no preference between the candidates and is willing to abide by the result.

40. If after voting on any question by the Ayes and Noes, the chair is in doubt, or if before or after the decision by the chair, and before other business has been taken up by the assembly, any member calls for a division of the vote, a rising vote is taken. The chair will say, “As many as are in