Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.580: Counting ballots; candidates considered to have received votes; rejection of ballot.

Sec. 580.

In counting the ballots after the closing of the polls, only those candidates having crosses or check marks marked in the squares to the left of their names shall be considered to have received votes, and any ballot upon which more votes have been recorded for candidates for any office than may, by law, be elected to that office shall be rejected as to all names appearing on the ballot for that office only.