Section 26(1) in Karnataka Ayurvedic and Unani Practitioners' Registration and Medical Practitioners' Miscellaneous Provisions Rules, 1964
(1)The Returning Officer shall open, in the presence of the members present, the ballot box, count the number of ballot papers taken out therefrom and scrutinise the ballot papers and separate those which in his opinion are valid from those which in his opinion are invalid endorsing on the latter the word "rejected" and the ground of rejection, and arrange all the valid ballot papers in a bundle.
