Afleitch is presently ahead 26-20 and may have a 27th vote depending on Gabu interprets DWPerry's 3rd preference for NOTA.
Doing so would be quite illegal, per Section 1, Clause 6 of the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act, which reads, in part, as follows:
"Any voter who votes for 'None of the Above' may do so only as a first preference."
This quite clearly indicates to me that any vote for NOTA that is not a first preference is to be ignored.
Of course, it could be noted that it then also goes on to given this potentially contradictory statement:
"Any and all lower preferences of the voter shall be ignored."
Out of context, this might seem to indicate that no matter where NOTA appears, lower preferences should be ignored, but such an interpretation would render Section 1, Clause 6 internally contradictory, so I thusly interpret the above quote to mean "if and only if a voter lists NOTA as his or her first preference, that voter's lower preferences must be ignored".
So the answer is no, his vote for NOTA will be ignored due to its not being a first preference, and I will simply move on to the preference below it.
