    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Page 766]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                  Rule XXXVIII.

                                     BALLOT.

    Sec. 934. Elections by ballot.

      In all  cases of ballot a
    majority of the votes given shall be necessary to an election, and where
    there shall not be such a majority on the first ballot the ballots shall
    be repeated until a majority be obtained; and in all balloting blanks
    shall be rejected and not taken into the count in enumeration of votes
    or reported by the tellers.

      This rule was first adopted in 1789 and was amended in 1837 (V, 6003).
    It was renumbered January 3, 1953, p. 24. The last election by ballot
    seems to have occurred in 1868 (V, 6003).