8. Each member shall have only one vote. No vote shall given by proxy. A member in giving his vote
| (a) shall place on his ballot paper the figure 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes; and |
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| (b) may, in addition, place on his ballot paper the figure 2, or the figures 2 and 3, or the figures 2, 3 and 4, and so on, in the squares opposite the names of the candidates in the order of his preferences. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts