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19:14-16.  Style of type, rulings and spacings
    The words to be printed on the perforated coupon shall be printed in twelve-point bold-faced capital letters and the figures in eighteen and twenty-two-point bold-faced type.  At the head of the ballot the words "Official General Election Ballot"  shall be printed in at least thirty-point bold-faced capital letters.  The name of municipality, ward, election district,  and date shall be printed in twelve-point bold-faced capital letters.  The  words  "Instructions to the voter"  shall be printed in twelve-point bold-faced  capitals and small letters, while the instructions embraced within the brackets  shall be printed in eight-point bold-faced capital and small letters.  The  column designations shall be printed in eighteen-point bold-faced capital  letters and the accompanying instructions shall be printed in eight-point  capitals and small letters. The titles of office and accompanying instructions  shall be printed in ten-point bold-faced capital and small letters.  When there  is no nomination made at the primary for an office, the title shall be printed  in the space where such title should appear, and the words  "No Nomination Made"  in type large enough to fill the entire space or spaces shall be printed  therein.  The names of all candidates shall be printed in ten-point capital  letters.  The designations following the candidates' names in the nomination by  petition column or columns shall be printed in ten-point capitals and small  letters, except that where they overrun the space within the column the  designations may be abbreviated, and all spaces between the two-point hair line  rules not occupied by the titles of office and names of candidates shall be  printed in with scroll or filling to guide the voter against wrongly marking  the ballot. On the foot of the ballot the words "Public Questions to be Voted  Upon" shall be printed in eighteen-point bold-faced capital letters.  The accompanying instructions shall be printed in eight-point capital and small letters.  The public questions to be voted upon shall be printed in ten-point capital and small letters, and the words "Yes"  and  "No"  shall be printed in twelve-point bold-faced capital letters.