JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
provided therefor, a cross — for example X — and in case of a
question submitted to a vote of the people by marking like-
wise in the appropriate space a cross (X) against the answer
which he desires to give. Not 'more than one voter shall be
permitted to occupy any one booth or compartment at one
time, and no voter shall remain in or occupy a booth longer
than may be necessary to prepare his ballot, and in. no event
longer than seven minutes, in case all such booths or com-
partments are in use and other voters are waiting to occupy
the same. Before leaving the voting booth or compartment
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the voter shall fold his ballot without displaying the marks
thereon and in the same way it was folded when received by
him, and he shall keep the same so folded until he has voted,
and so that the signature or initials of the judge from whom
he received it and the name and number written on the coupon
thereof, but nothing else thereon may be seen . He shall forth-
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Voter folds
marked bal-
lot.
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with hand his said ballot to the judge at the ballot-box and
shall give his name and residence, and upon his being identi-
fied as the person who received such ballot, the judge shall
deposit his ballot in the box, having first detached therefrom
its coupon, which he shall then string upon a cord or wire to
be provided for the purpose, and the said voter shall forthwith
leave the enclosed space. The j udges having charge of the reg-
isters shall then, in the column therein headed "Voted, ' ' in the
same line with the name of the voter, mark the word "Voted"
or the letter "V." No ballot without the endorsement of the
name or initials of the judge thereon, as hereinbefore provided,
shall be deposited in said ballot-box, but if deposited, shall
be counted for the purpose of ascertaining the number thereof,
and the judges shall, in ink, mark on the back thereof the
word "Counted," and indorse their names.
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Judge receives
ballot.
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270DDD. Assistance in marking their ballots shall be given
to voters who shall declare, under oath, to the judges of elec-
tion that by reason of blindness or physical disability they are
unable, without assistance, to mark their ballot. Upon mak-
ing and filing with the judges such affidavit the voter shall
retire to one of the booths with the two clerks and then and
there one of said clerks, in the presence of the other, shall
mark the ballots as such voters shall direct, the voter himself
naming one by one the candidates for whom he desires his
ballot to be marked, and not indicating the candidates by a
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Assistance t o
blind or
physically
disabled
voters by
two clerks.
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general designation as the candidates of any one political
party. The ballots shall not be read to such voter, nor shall
any suggestion of any kind be made by either of said two
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Ballots must
not be read to
voter or sug-
gestion made.
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