31.   Therefore the petitioners claim the interpretation is illegal and the blank slips should be included in the total number of valid votes.

32.   Therefore the petitioners claim the law is invalid, and the blank slips should be included in the total number of valid votes.

33.   Therefore the petitioners claimed it was illegal, and the blank slips should be included in the total number of valid votes.

34.   To win on the first ballot he needs half the valid votes.

35.   What he did not explain was that in both cases, the ballot would be a valid vote for Our Home, the newspaper wrote.

36.   Whichever candidate obtains a majority of the valid votes cast wins the election.