ART. 33] PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 939

official envelope, and the stub or coupon provided for herein for such
official envelope shall be filled out and handled in every respect similar
to the coupon provided for official ballots at general elections for the
State, and it shall not be lawful for the judges or clerks of election to
place their names or initials, or any other matter, upon the official
ballots; and it shall be lawful for every person having the qualifications
of a voter for such primary elections under this article in the several
counties of the State to have his official ballot prepared before entering
the proper polling place, but upon presenting himself to the judges of
elections as provided by this article, and it having been determined by
such judges that he is qualified to vote in such primaries, there shall
be given him by the proper election official a blank official bal-
lot of the political party in whose primaries he is entitled to
vote, together with an unsealed official envelope for the same party, as
provided for herein; he shall thereupoon retire to one of the booths pro-
vided for the purpose, and shall there, with black pencil and in the man-
ner required by law, prepare such official ballot for voting, or in the
privacy of such booth he may exchange such ballot for the official ballot
or one of the official ballots which he may have brought into such polling
places with him, previously prepared for voting, and while in such
booth he shall place the official ballot he desires to vote in the official
envelope so provided and seal the same; he shall then hand to one of
the judges of election the envelope so sealed containing the official
ballot he desires to cast, and the judge of election so receiving such
envelope and ballot shall, after detaching the coupon attached thereto,
deposit such envelope so sealed in the ballot box of the voter's political
party in the presence of the voter and of the other judges of election; in
such primary elections held in the several counties of the State, upon
the opening of the ballot boxes by the judges, they shall count and
announce the whole number of envelopes, representing the whole num-
ber of ballots in the ballot boxes for the several parties in similar
manner to that provided by this article for official ballots at general
elections, and, in counting the ballots, the judges shall carefully examine
the ballots and the envelopes containing the same, and if any envelope
shall be found not of the character required by this article, or if any
mark or device be found on any envelope, shall be found not of the
character required by this article, or if any mark or device be found on
any envelope or peculiar folding by which, in the opinion of the majority
of the judges, the same may be identified so as to indicate who may
have cast the same, the ballot so marked, or the ballot contained in the
envelope so marked or folded, or improperly substituted, shall not be
counted; and when more than one ballot shall be found in an envelope,
neither of the ballots therein shall be counted; nor shall a ballot be
counted when found in an envelope furnished for a different political
party than that for which the ballot was provided; and the intention, so
far as the same may be ascertained from each ballot itself, shall, in the
absence of any unlawful or fraudulent mark or device thereon or
enclosed therewith or on the envelope containing the same, prevail; and