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ART. XXXIII] VOTING BY MAIL. 273
at the usual place for holding the Superior Court, and shall there count,
certify and canvass the ballots contained in the ballot envelopes received
by them up to such time from the Secretary of State as hereinbefore
provided, and for the purposes of said count, certification and canvass
said Supervisors of Elections shall act as and be judges of election for
counting said ballots. If said supervisors or a majority of them are
satisfied that the provisions for filling out and signing the certificates
on the outside of the ballot envelope have been substantially complied
with, and that the person signing the voter's certificate is a duly quali-
fied voter and entitled to vote under this sub-title in any precinct or elec-
tion district of their respective county or city and has not already voted
there in person on election day, they shall open the ballot envelope and
remove the ballot therefrom and place it in a ballot box or ballot boxes
prepared for that purpose. When any ballot envelope is opened the
Supervisors of Elections shall enter in the appropriate register the fact
that the voter whose name appears thereon has voted, and such entry
shall be the initials "V. M." to indicate that the vote has been by mail.
If there be more than one ballot in the ballot envelope all shall be
rejected. At primary elections the ballot shall not be counted unless
it is a ballot of the political party with which the voter is affiliated.
Ballots printed "Mail Ballots" may be marked by any kind of pencil
or ink.
1918, ch. 78, sec. 227.
227. When all the ballots have been voted as aforesaid the Super-
visors of Elections shall proceed to canvass and count the same in accord-
ance with the provisions relating to the canvass and count of votes in
such city or county by judges and clerks of elections. The Supervisors
of Elections shall appoint such clerks as may be necessary to keep the
tallies for each precinct or district in which ballots are counted and
canvassed by them, and the tallies and the returns shall all be trans-
mitted to the Board of Canvassers as hereinafter provided. The Super-
visors of Elections upon completing the count shall make the statements
or returns of the result as required to be made by judges of elections for
every precinct or election district in which mail ballots have been
counted, and at the end of such return shall sign a certificate that the
same is correct in all respects. If any Supervisor shall decline to sign
such return the same action shall be taken by him as is required to be
taken by a judge of election in a similar case.
The Supervisors of Elections shall then proceed to sit as a Board of
Canvassers, shall canvass the returns made by them of mail ballots
counted by them as aforesaid and shall canvass and add up such votes
in the total of votes canvassed and counted by them. The Board of
Canvassers shall not conclude the canvass of votes at any election until
after the time for counting and canvassing votes by mail as aforesaid
shall have expired and until such mail ballots as they shall receive from
the Supervisors of Elections shall be counted and canvassed as afore-
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