WHAT started off as a rude drawing on an election ballot paper has turned into an international debate.A resident of Montgomeryshire drew a symbol of a man's private part instead of a cross in the Conservative box during the General Election last week.Returning officer Jeremy Patterson called a representative from each party over at the Montgomeryshire count and deemed the vote as valid because the drawing was inside the Glyn Davies Conservative box and the symbol contained a cross.During the election evening a nervous Mr Davies revealed the circumstances regarding the vote on Facebook.He wrote the voter decided to draw a detailed representation of a man's private part instead of a cross in his box on one ballot paper.“Amazingly, because it was neatly drawn within the confines of the box the returning officer deemed it a valid vote," said Mr Davies."Not sure the artist meant it to count, but I am grateful. If I knew who it was, I would like to thank him or her personally.”This comment generated interest throughout the world.Mr Davies said: “It’s just amazing that this has become such a major story all over the world.“I now know that it would have also been an eligible vote in Canada and Hungary. It was certainly amusing but at the time I was dead pan and didn’t show any expression as it was such a tense situation.”This week people took to Facebook to comment on the symbol used to vote.Justin Bernard said: “I know of the person who did it and it was categorically not a protest vote of which the media like to portray it as. The person who did it just wanted to make whoever were counting the votes smile.”Mr Davies said that a total of 30 ballot papers were highlighted as being “unusual”