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In the second iteration , which shall be for the fourth place on the List , the top ranked non-stricken candidate votes on each ballot shall be counted . The department said the ballots would be counted , but they would not impact the results of the election ( For more details , see the archived news story at http://www.calvoter.org/news/ap112901.html ) . Once the local elections jurisdiction certified that the absentee ballots could be counted using the affidavit information , election officials in jurisdictions we visited told us that they removed the secrecy envelope ( with the voted ballot sealed inside ) and set it aside for counting . Then all ballots would be counted again , with the votes of those who had supported the dropped candidates shifting to their second choice . It was more than a year before a federal judge ruled that the ballots could be counted . The ballots shall be counted by each of these individuals , independently , in the presence of the Members attending , immediately after being cast . The ballots shall be counted by the Treasurer and another Teller appointed by the President . Prior to mailing , put your initials on the back of the ballot and write the number of the precinct in which the voter is voting so the ballot can be counted or duplicated for the correct precinct . The ballot shall be counted if the Voter Registrar determines that the Provisional Voter is eligible and submitted a timely voter registration application , but was not timely received by the Voter Registrar . The ballots shall be counted and the candidate with the largest number of votes declared elected . The Mississippi Secretary of State 's office suggested that the soldiers fax in federal ballots but was not sure the ballots would be counted . The court ruled that although there were procedural errors in violation of state law , there was no intentional wrongdoing , and therefore the 637 ( Republican ) ballots could be counted . Father Deonisio Sarmento , coordinator of the youth ministry in Baucau , raised a concern about where the ballots would be counted . In Ohio , Mr. Blackwell , who was co-chairman of Mr. Bush 's state campaign , ruled that provisional ballots would be counted only when cast from a voter 's proper precinct . If an elector writes upon his ballot the name of any person who is a candidate for any office upon some other ballot than that upon which his name is so written , such elector shall thereby invalidate his vote for that particular office , but the vote on the remainder of the ballot shall be counted . Every vote taken by ballots shall be counted by a duly appointed inspector or inspectors . Such provisional ballot shall be counted , provided the election authority verifies the identity of the individual by comparing that individual 's signature to the signature on file with the election authority and determines that the individual was eligible to cast a ballot at the polling place where the ballot was cast . Afterward , the inner envelopes from all eligible voters shall be opened and the ballots shall be counted . An overseas voter who completes a federal write-in early ballot may designate a candidate by writing in the name of the candidate or by writing in the name of a political party , in which case the ballot shall be counted for the candidate of that political party .