Mr. Art O'Leary:

The High Court judgment on that was in the Dan Kiely case in respect of the local elections. The paper had 1, 2, 3 for the local elections and 4, 5, 6 for European Parliament elections. Judge Frank Clarke, as he was then, ruled that they should not be counted because it could not be guaranteed in every single case that what was marked was the intention of the person who voted, even though, on the face of it, it seemed to indicate their intentions.