Section 16(4) in The Sikh Gurdwaras Board (Co-optation of Members) Rules, 1926
(4)"Exhausted papers" mean ballot-papers on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate :Provided that a paper shall also be deemed to be exhausted in any case in which -(a)the names of two or more candidates, whether continuing or not, are marked with the same figure and are the next in order of preference;(b)the name of the candidate next in order of preference whether continuing or not, is marked -(i)by a figure not following consecutively after some other figure on the ballot-paper; or(ii)by two or more figures.(c)it is void for uncertainty.
