1272 ARTICLE 33.

accordingly. No one who is not registered as a qualified voter of the pre-
cinct shall be entitled to vote or to receive a ballot, but no vote shall be
rejected because of an error in the spelling of the voter's name or because of
the wrongful omission or addition of one or more initials of his middle
name or names, or because the voter gives the initials, one or more of his
Christian or given name instead of his full name or one or more of his
Christian or given name or names, instead of the initial or initials thereof,
or because of an error in the number of his residence on the register, pro-
vided a majority of the judges are satisfied that the person offering to vote
is the identical person who is registered, and that he intended to register
his true name and residence. Unless a majority of the judges are of the
opinion that the person so challenged is entitled to vote, the judge at the
ballot box shall endorse upon his ballot the word " rejected," and return
the same still folded, and with its coupon attached, to the judge holding
the ballots, and the clerks of election shall draw a line through the name and
number of said person as entered on their poll books, and write thereafter
the word " rejected," or if for any other reason a person who has received a
ballot shall leave the polling place without voting, they shall likewise draw
a line through his name and number on the poll books, and write thereafter
the words " did not vote." All ballots returned to the judge holding the
ballots shall be immediately strung by him upon a cord or wire, provided
for the purpose, still folded and with the coupons still attached, and each
endorsed upon the back thereof with the words " spoiled," or " rejected,"
or " not voted," as the case may be, and all such ballots shall be returned
to the supervisors of elections, as hereinafter provided.
Cited but not construed in Duvall v. Miller, 94 Md. 714.

Count of the Ballots.

An. Code, sec. 71. 1904, sec. 69. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 64. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 69.

78. As soon as the election polls shall have been closed, the judges in
their several precincts shall immediately, and at the place of polling, pro-
ceed, as hereinbefore provided, to canvass the votes cast, having first sealed
up the unused ballots remaining of the package last broken by them, and
endorse the same with their signatures as unused ballots. The canvass shall
not be adjourned nor postponed until it shall have been fully completed, or
until the several statements and tally-sheets hereinafter required to be made
by the judges and clerks shall have been made out, signed and sealed by
them. The judges shall have the right to station police officers or officers of
the peace within the room wherein such canvass is made, in order to keep
the peace. The challengers and watchers shall be allowed to be present inside
the guard-rail and so near that they can see that the judges and clerks are
faithfully performing their duties.
See notes to sec. 80.

An. Code, sec. 72. 1904, sec. 70. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 65.

79. 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