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taken from their hands. As the ballots are counted they shall be strung
upon a strong twine.

The foregoing provisions to apply to Baltimore City, Baltimore
County, Garrett County, Allegany County, Washington County, Fred-
erick County, Carroll County, Harford County, Montgomery County,
Howard County, Prince George's County, Calvert County, Charles
County, St. Mary's County, Cecil County, Kent County, Queen Anne's
County, Talbot County, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Wicom-
ico County, Somerset County and Worcester County.

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

1912, ch. 492. 1914, ch. 225, sec. 71A.

73A. This section shall apply only to Anne Arundel County, in
which county the judges shall open the ballot-box and count and an-
nounce 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 initial of the Judge who
held the ballots; if the voter has marked more names than there are
persons to be elected to 'any 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 candidate 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 portions 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 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 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 taken from
their hands. As the ballots are counted they shall be strung upon a
strong twine.