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and if he shall take said oath, he shall be questioned by the judge or
judges touching said cause of challenge, and he may also be questioned
by the person challenging him in regard thereto, and if a majority of
the judges are of opinion that he is the person so registered, his vote
shall be received accordingly. No one who is not registered as a quali-
fied voter of the precinct shall be entitled to vote or to receive a ballot,
but no vote shall be rejected because of an error in the spelling of the
voter's name or because of the wrongful omission or addition of one or
more initials of his middle name or names, or because the voter gives the
initials, one or more of his Christian or given name instead of his full
name or one or more of his Christian or given name or names, instead
of the initial or initials thereof, or because of an error in the number
of his residence on the register, provided a majority of the judges are
satisfied that the person offering to vote is the identical person who is
registered, and that he intended to register his true name and residence.
Unless a majority of the judges are of the opinion that the person so
challenged is entitled to vote, the judge at the ballot box shall endorse
upon his ballot the word "rejected," 'and return the same still folded,
and with its coupon attached, to the judge holding the ballots, and the
clerks of election shall draw a line through the name and number of
said person as entered on their poll books, and write thereafter the
word "rejected," or if for any other reason a person who has received a
ballot shall leave the polling place without voting, they shall likewise
draw a line through his name and number on the poll books, and write
thereafter 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 herein-
after provided.

Cited but not construed in Duvall v. Miller, 94 Md. 714.

Count of the Ballots.

1904, art. 33, sec. 69. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 64. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 69.
71. As soon as the election polls shall have been closed, the judges
in their several precincts shall immediately, and at the place of polling,
proceed, as hereinbefore provided, to canvass the votes cast, having first
sealed up the unused ballots remaining of the package last broken by
them, and endorse the same with their signatures as unused ballots.
The canvass shall not be adjourned nor postponed until it shall have
been fully completed, or until the several statements and tally-sheets
hereinafter required to be made by the judges and clerks shall have
been made out, signed and sealed by them. The judges shall have the
right to station police officers or officers of the peace within the room
wherein such canvass is made, in order to keep the peace. The chal-
lengers and watchers shall be allowed to be present inside the guard-