votes. At the counting it was announced that the total
number of votes polled were 15,288; 828 votes were invalid, 5 were tendered
votes ... identifying the invalid votes, votes validly
cast in favour of the election petitioner were wrongly rejected and votes
which were really invalid were accepted
result of the election was materially affected by improper acceptance of invalid votes in favour of respondent No. 1 (Dr. Narendra Kumar Singh Gaur ... Coming to the ground No. (iv) regarding improper acceptance of invalid votes and improper rejection of valid votes in favour of the petitioner, the material
advocate from Page 0030 voting, none the less, the voting paper is to be treated as invalid, if the elector give his preference to less ... office. In the event on recounting of votes any other candidate gets more votes than those votes secured by respondents
votes and the first respondent got 15 votes, the second respondent 32 votes
and 5 votes were invalid votes. Her further case is that ... votes polled in Booth No.71, the petitioner has secured 228
votes, the first respondent 15 votes, the second respondent 32 votes and invalid
votes
votes between the defeated candidate and the returned
candidate was only 51 votes and the wrong counting of
votes amounted to 188 invalid/void votes ... many as 188 votes have been wrongly counted in spite
of the fact that all those votes were invalid/void votes.
He had also stated
after the counting of
votes is completed, votes polled by two candidates are
equal, and the addition of one vote will entitle any of
these ... votes had been polled and Appellant herein had secured only 397 votes
whereas he had secured 412 votes. It was averred :
(1) two votes were
Booth No.
Gursewak
Singh
(Appellant)
Avtar Singh
(First
Respondent)
Rejected
Votes
Votes for the
Booth ... votes were found to be in favour of the
Appellant, 968 votes in favour of the First Respondent and 427 votes were
found invalid
voters exercised their right of voting. Out of 513 ballots, 27 votes were found invalid and rejected. 486 votes were valid. The petitioner polled ... Council.
[b] Illegal rejection of valid votes and illegal acceptance of invalid votes as valid one.
[c] Exercise of undue influence by respondent
statutory rules, certain valid votes have been declared as invalid and certain invalid votes have been declared as valid as a result thereof petitioner lost ... adverting into the merit with regard to recounting of votes and invalidation of votes are concerned, there is much force in the contention advanced
respondent No. 5 secured 852 votes and the third candidate got 11 votes and 38 votes were rejected as invalid. The first respondent ... votes secured by each candidate including the number of invalid votes in the report submitted to the Mandal Election Officer on 17-8-2001 itself
