Original sentence: In this case, the voter was voting for the PIP as a party for the purposes of stating party affiliation and for the PIP's default slate, but had decided to select individual candidates from other party's slates.The Supreme Court ruled by 4-3 majority that the ballots in question were valid.The ballots in question were cast both for the Puerto Rico Independence Party and Rosselló's New Progressive Party, with individual candidate marks in favor of Acevedo Vila as the candidate for governor of the Popular Democratic Party.The end result is a single vote per candidate, as the law and democracy requires.The individual votes for candidates not from the voter's selected party are then deducted from the votes given to the default candidates of the voter's party.The mark indicating the selection of a political party selects that party's slate of candidates by default, but the voter can also select individual candidates from other parties to replace candidates from the default slate.This ballot method was also allowed and seen in the 1996 and 2000 elections, and had never been contested, either at the Legislature or by the NPP's Electoral Commissioner.This type of voting is identified by law in Rule 50 of the State Election Commission's rules, based on the Commonwealth's Electoral Law as amended in 2004, Title 2, Section 2.001, Subsection 3[], as a "mixed vote," and is a practice that is entirely legal and has been published in the official voter's instructions by the State Election Commission for quite some time
Edited sentence: In this case, the voter was supposedly voting for both of the PIP's candidates, as well as both of the PPD's candidates to the same posts.The Supreme Court, where five of the seven sitting Justices had been named by Acevedo Vila's party, ruled 4-3 that the ballots in question were valid.The ballots were cast both for the Puerto Rico Independence Party, for Acevedo Vila as the candidate for governor, and for the PPD's candidate for Resident Commissioner, a voting option that had never before been seen or accepted in Puerto Rico.The vote for the party banner selects that party's slate of candidates by default, but the voter can select individual candidates from other parties to replace candidates from the default slate