> -----Original Message-----
> The EC can decide what level of supervision it wants to exercise.
> There's no explicit requirement for them to check the ballots, for example,
> and as far as I can tell they haven't in the past.

I know that they have. If they haven't while you were chair it indicates a deterioration of EC's capacity. 
It's really sad to see you digging your heels in on this issue, Tapani.

You made a mistake, it's a simple matter to fix it. By digging in your heels like this you are starting to raise questions about your impartiality. 
You are also risking dragging the SG down into a dispute resolution process and a vote of the membership. This is, to put it bluntly, not very intelligent. 
You are risking a very major delay in the outcome because you don't want to take half an hour to reformat and resend the ballot. 
Not smart. 

> But it seems the EC isn't willing to call for new ballots or anything else at this
> point. So the voting will continue with current ballots.

The EC is divided on this question, as you know.