14. (1) Where an election is to be conducted for a region, the marketing board shall mail or cause to be delivered one ballot to each licensed producer in the region, (a) no later than October 15 in the election year, if the ballot is mailed; or (b) no later than October 17 in the election year, if the ballot is delivered otherwise than by mail. (2) Each ballot shall be in a form provided by the marketing board and shall be accompanied by, (a) an envelope identified by the words “Ballot Envelope”; and (b) a mailing envelope addressed to the returning officer appointed by the marketing board for the Region. (2.1) If a licensed producer establishes to the satisfaction of the marketing board that the producer did not receive or has misplaced the ballot that the marketing board mailed or delivered under subsection (1), the marketing board shall provide a substitute ballot to the producer and declare the original ballot void. (3) A voter shall cast a vote by, (a) placing a mark on the ballot in the box opposite the name of the candidate for whom the voter wishes to vote; (b) sealing the marked ballot within the Ballot Envelope; (c) affixing the voter’s signature and licence number on the detachable portion of the Ballot Envelope in the spaces provided; (d) sealing the Ballot Envelope within the mailing envelope; and (e) mailing the mailing envelope, or consigning it for delivery, to the returning officer not later than the last Tuesday in October in the election year. (4) The returning officer shall not accept a mailing envelope unless he or she is satisfied it was mailed or consigned for delivery not later than the last Tuesday in October in the election year. (5) Where the returning officer accepts a mailing envelope, he or she shall, subject to subsection (5.1), (a) remove the Ballot Envelope from the mailing envelope, remove the detachable portion of the Envelope, and deposit the Envelope in a sealed ballot box; and (b) record, in the form provided by the marketing board, which producer has cast a vote. (5.1) The returning officer shall not accept a Ballot Envelope if the detachable portion of the Envelope is not attached and completed in accordance with clause 14 (3) (c). (6) The ballots shall be counted by the returning officer on the second Tuesday in November in the election year, and the returning officer shall, (a) count the ballots in the presence of at least two persons eligible under section 9 to vote in the election; (b) permit each candidate to be represented at the counting of the ballots by a scrutineer designated by the candidate; (c) reject and keep separate every ballot, (i) that he or she did not supply, (ii) that contains votes for more than one candidate, or (iii) upon which, or upon the Ballot Envelope containing which, there is any writing or mark by which the voter may be identified or where such ballot or Ballot Envelope has been so dealt with by the voter that he or she can thereby be identified; (d) prepare and deliver to the marketing board, in the form provided therefor by the marketing board, a record of, (i) the number of ballots cast, (ii) the number of votes given and allowed for each candidate, and (iii) the number of rejected ballots; and (e) retain in safe custody, for such period of time as the marketing board directs, (i) the detachable portion of the Ballot Envelopes, and (ii) all the ballots, including the rejected ballots, if any.