In re Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “If there was a vacancy in fact in the office, then writing the name of the candidate in connection with the office to be filled could not be said to make the same a 'marked ballot,' so as to vitiate it. If there was an honest belief that such vacancy existed, and reasonable ground for such belief, then it must be equally true that a voter who wrote upon his ballot the name of such office, with the name of the person that he desired to fill the same, has not so marked his ballot as to destroy its validity. The alternative would be that the voter must correctly decide the question as to such vacancy at the peril of nullifying his vote for any other candidate upon the official ballot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Aura v. Brandt

2. “any mark other than a cross X mark or any erasure of any kind shall make the whole ballot void.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Aura v. Brandt