890 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

rail and so near that they can see that the judges and clerks are faith-
fully performing their duties.

1904, art. 33, sec. 70. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 65.

72. Immediately after the closing of the polls before the ballot-box
is opened all the coupons taken from the ballots cast shall be destroyed
and 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 headed "voted" the word "no,"
so that the said column may be wholly filled up, and 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 they have made comparison and ascertained
such facts they shall announce the same in a loud voice.
See notes to sec. 75.

Ibid. sec. 71. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 66. 1901, ch. 2. 1908, ch. 576.

73. The judges shall 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
indorsed thereon the name or initial 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 the name of a candidate, or other than
the name or names of any candidates written by the voter on the ballot
as provided in section 54, 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, and no
ballot shall be rejected solely because any part or portion of the cross-
mark extends beyond the square, if the point of intersection of the cross-
mark is within the square. 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 call out each name and the office for which
it is designated and the other judges looking at the same time, and the
clerks making tally of the same. When all the ballots have been can-
vassed in this manner, the election clerks shall compare their tallies
together and ascertain the total number of votes received by each candi-
date, and when 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 candidate. 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 fully read and examine the
same, but the judges shall not allow any ballot to be taken from their