Any other form of marking will lead to a spoiltvote.
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The IEC has prepared for this, and explained to us what constitutes a spoiltvote.
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Any attempt to circle or "fill in" a box is a spoiltvote.
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It's not just a handful of voters, either: Thousands of people register a " spoiltvote" in every national election, with varying degrees of purpose.
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Paddy Smyth reports on how a bizarre spoiledvote saw the final decision made by drawing lot.
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The final vote was 52 in favour and 15 against the deal with one spoiledvote.
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The result was the low turnout and the high level of spoiledvotes.
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Returning officers throughout the State reported what they believed were unprecedented numbers of spoiledvotes.
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Some 820 students voted against the levy, and there were 44 spoiledvotes.
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The number of spoiltballot papers in the whole country probably is less than 1 per cent.
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To now suggest a spoiltballot in the general election as a 'tough love' protest against ANC corruption and ineptitude is pointless.
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Hurley added that returning officers at the Gloucestershire count had reported unprecedented numbers of spoiltballot papers, many scrawled with abusive slogans.
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The difficulty with a spoiltballot is that the IEC's mandate is simply to register whether a ballot paper is valid or not valid.
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All 313 Conservative MPs voted - with one spoiledballot recorded.
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They would be free to protest with spoiledballot papers.
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Every spoiledballot or abstention is a vote that could have been given to the opposition.
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That means - like any other kind of spoiledballot - the vote will be ruled "informal".
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The conduct of the campaign contributed to the unusually high number of 109,066 spoiledballot papers.
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There were 111 invalidballots.
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The total valid poll was 1,686,511, with 40,545 invalidballots.
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Close to 30 percent of all voters in that election cast blank or invalidballots, a situation which generated doubts about the vote's political legitimacy.
Uso de invalid vote en inglés
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He maintains that if invalidvotes were disallowed he would now be the constituency MP.
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Invalidvotes totalled 106 and the total valid poll was 39,496.
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Following extensive discussions over doubtful ballots, it emerged five invalidvotes had been included in the first full count.
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The rest cast invalidvotes.
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At the Uefa vote, there were 28 in favour and 24 against, plus two invalidvotes.
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There were 20,080 invalidvotes and 1,220,055 valid.
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Mr Cooper maintains that if the invalidvotes were disallowed he would have had a majority and therefore would be the lawfully-elected MP.
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A Bill to impeach President Park Geun-hye passed by 234 votes to 56, with nine invalidvotes and abstentions.
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Nathan Steiner, head of systems engineering at Veeam Software, said that staggering numbers of invalidvotes could've potentially influenced the outcome of the election.
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There was also a high number of voters who did not answer the second question on alternative systems and invalidvotes reached 34%.
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THE recheck of ballots in Dublin South East has involved a painstaking examination of each of the 36,671 valid and 361 invalidvotes east.
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The Chief Electoral Officer says 1,622,952 people took part in the non-binding postal referendum, which, including invalidvotes, represents 54.04% of eligible voters.