A “No” Vote on a “Yes” Ballot

The counting of the votes was being supervised by a few of us. Literally, we could tell which vote was a ‘yes’ because it was on a white ballot, the ‘no’ was on a black ballot. But the numbers seem to be too close to call, so someone brought out the ‘reserve’ ballots to be counted with the white ones. Upon inspection, I found that at least one had written a ‘no’ on it and then signed their name. What the heck?

(And, yes, I get the black/white connotations…)