1238                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 739

Supervisors of Elections, as hereinafter provided. Every voter who
does not vote any ballot delivered to him, before leaving the polling
place, shall return such ballot to the judge from whom he received it,
and said returned ballot shall be retained as if it had been spoiled.
If for any other reason a person who has received a ballot shall leave
the polling place without voting, the clerk of election shall draw a
line through his name and number on the poll books, and write there-
after the words "Did not vote". All ballots returned to the judge
holding the ballots shall be immediately strung by him upon a cord
or wire, provided for the purpose, still folded and with the coupons
still attached, and each endorsed upon the back thereof with the
words "Spoiled", or "Rejected", or "Not voted", as the case may be,
and all such ballots shall be returned to the Supervisors of Elections,
as hereinafter provided.

111.   Assistance to Physically Handicapped Voters. (a) Affidavit.
Assistance in marking their ballots shall be given to voters who shall
declare under oath to the judges of election that by reason of blind-
ness or physical disability they are unable without assistance to mark
their ballots. No ballot shall be marked under this section until a
majority of the judges of election shall be satisfied of the truth of
the fact stated in such affidavit.

(b)  Procedure. Upon making and filing with the judges such af-
fidavit the voter shall retire to one of said booths with any person
whom the voter may select RELATED TO THE VOTER BY BLOOD
OR MARRIAGE, or with the two clerks. Then and there the
person whom the voter has selected, or in case the voter has selected
no one, one of said clerks, in the presence of the other, shall mark
the ballot as such voter shall direct. The only assistance which
it shall be lawful for said person or for the clerks to give the voter is
to mark the ballot as the voter shall direct, without prompting or
suggestion from them, or either of them.

(c)  Disability Required. No assistance in marking ballots shall be
given, except to voters who are blind or incapable from physical
disability from marking the ballot.

CANVASS OF PAPER BALLOTS

112.   Canvass in Polls. (a) Required. As soon as the election
polls have been closed, the judges in their several precincts shall
immediately, and at the place of polling, proceed to canvass the
votes cast.

(b)   Unused Ballots. The judges shall first seal up the unused
ballots remaining of the package last broken by them and endorse
the same with their signatures as unused ballots.

(c)  Registers. Each of the election clerks shall write his name
in each of the poll-books immediately under the name of the last
voter, and the judges shall write in ink, opposite to and against
the name of each person entered in their registers who is not shown
by said registers to have voted, and in the appropriate column head
"Voted" the word "No", so that the said column may be wholly filled
up. The judges shall then compare the registers, make them agree
and ascertain the number of persons who by said registers are
shown to have voted at that polling place on that day; and when