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clerks to show him as to how his ballot is to be marked, but
the only assistance which it shall be lawful for the clerks to
give him is to mark the ballot as he., without prompting or
suggestion from them, or either of them shall direct, but no
ballots shall be marked under this section until a majority of
the judges of election shall be satisfied of the truth of the
facts stated in such affidavit. Voters who are not disabled by
blindness or physical injury from marking their ballots shall
not be entitled to receive assistance in marking them. And
with the exceptions in favor of persons blind or incapable
from physical injury of marking their ballots without assist-
ance no distinction or discrimination in the matter of assist-
ance in marking ballots shall be made for or against any duly
registered voter for any other cause whatever.
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270HHH. The judges shall then open the ballot-box and
count and announce the whole number of ballots in the box.
They shall reject any ballots which are deceitfully folded
together, and any ballots which do not have endorsed thereon
the name or initials of the judge who held the ballots. If the
voter has marked more names than there are persons to be
elected to an office, or if there shall be any mark on the ballot
other than the cross mark in a square opposite to a name of
the candidate, or other than the name or names of any candi-
date written by the voter on the ballot, as provided in Sec-
tion 270QQ, his ballot shall not be counted. Ballots not
counted" for such defects shall be marked "Defective" on the
back thereof, and shall be wrapped in a separate package and
returned to the ballot-box, as hereinafter directed. No vote
shall be counted for any candidate opposite whose name no
cross mark shall be placed. They shall open the ballots and
all of them shall be canvassed separately by one of the judges
sitting between two other judges, which judge shall call out
each name and the office for which it is designated, and the
other judges looking at the ballot at the same time and the
clerks making tally of same. When all the ballots have been
canvassed in this manner the election clerks shall compare
their tallies together and ascertain the total number of votes
received by each candidate, and where they agree upon the
numbers one of them shall announce, in a loud voice to the
judges, the aggregate number of votes received by each can-
didate. If requested by any watcher or challenger present at
any canvass, it shall be the duty of the judges, and each of
them, to exhibit to such watcher or challenger any ballot cast,
fully opened, or in such condition and manner that he may
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