550 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

counties and in said city, cause to be conspicuously and securely posted
in one or more public places in each voting precinct of their respective
counties, or of said city, accurate sample copies of the ballots to be
used in such district or precinct, at the then approaching election;
such sample copies shall be printed on light cardboard or heavy sized
paper of considerably magnified dimensions and one of them at least
shall be placed upon the exterior of each building in which the polls
will be held, so that the same can be readily seen and examined by
persons passing on the street or road.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

Count of the Ballots.

1904, art. 33, sec. 71. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 66. 1901, ch. 2. 1908, ch. 576.
1912, ch. 492. 1914, ch. 225, sec. 71.

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, 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, such 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 or because the voter has marked more
names than there are persons to be elected to an office, but such ballots
shall not be counted, for any candidate in the group of names so
marked. They shall open the ballots, and all of them shall be can-
vassed 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 des-
ignated and the other judges looking at the ballot at the same time,
and the clerks making tally of the 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 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