Supreme Court dismisses election protest regarding vote allocation to first-list candidate when multiple candidates are marked.

The Supreme Court dismissed Mariusz W.'s election protest against the validity of parliamentary elections held on October 21, 2007. The petitioner argued that local election commissions incorrectly applied guidelines to allocate votes cast for multiple candidates from the same list to the candidate listed first, rather than to the specific candidate marked with an 'x'. The court ruled that the statutory provision requires allocating such a vote to the candidate whose name appears first among those actually marked with an 'x', thereby excluding the first-list candidate if their name was not marked.