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12. Have election judges sign post -election review worksheet. <br />13. Immediately transmit results to the secretary of state. <br />204C.21 COUNTING BALLOTS; PILING SYSTEM. <br />Subdivision 1.Method. <br />The election judges shall take all the ballots of the same kind and count the votes cast <br />for each office or question, beginning with the first office or question on the ballot. They <br />shall make one pile of the ballots for each candidate who received votes for that office, or <br />one pile for the "Yes" votes and one pile for the "No" votes on a question. They shall make a <br />pile of totally defective ballots and a pile of totally blank ballots. They shall make a pile of <br />ballots that are not totally defective but are defective with respect to the office or question <br />being counted and a pile of ballots that are not totally blank but are blank with respect to the <br />office or question being counted. After the separation into piles, the election judges shall <br />examine each pile and remove and place in the proper pile any ballots that are found in the <br />wrong pile. The election judges shall count the totally blank and totally defective ballots and <br />set them aside until the counting is over for that ballot. The election judges may pile ballots <br />crosswise in groups of 25 in the same pile to facilitate counting. When their counts agree, the <br />election judges shall announce the number of ballots in each pile, and shall write the number <br />in the proper place on the summary statements. <br />The election judges shall then return all the counted ballots, and all the partially <br />defective or partially blank ballots, to the original pile to be separated and counted in the <br />same manner for the next office or question. <br />204C.22 DETERMINING VOTER'S INTENT. <br />Subdivision 1.Ballot valid if intent determinable. <br />A ballot shall not be rejected for a technical error that does not make it impossible to <br />determine the voter's intent. In determining intent the principles contained in this section <br />apply. <br />Subd. 2.From face of ballot only. <br />Intent shall be ascertained only from the face of the ballot. <br />Subd. 3.Votes for too many candidates. <br />