Bass v. Leavitt

Election Contest—Ballots—Legality—Marks not Distinguishing. Ballots do not have distinguishing marks affecting their legality, merely because the voter used the stamp from top to bottom, causing the impression to be dimmer, as the ink gave cut, until he reached the bottom, nor by reason of the blurring of a stamp mark from moving the hand while the impression was made, nor by reason of ink marks, either on the face or back of ballots, which show no evidence of design,- but manifestly appear to have resulted from careless handling of the ballots in counting the same.