ELECTIONS. 1273

each of the election clerks shall write his name in each of the poll-books
immediately under the name of the last voter, and the judges shall write
in ink, opposite to and against the name of each person entered in their
registers who is not shown by said registers to have voted, and in the
appropriate column headed " voted" the word " no," so that the said
column may be wholly filled up, and the judges shall then compare the
registers, make them agree and ascertain the number of persons who by
said registers are shown to have voted at that polling place on that day, and
when they have made comparison and ascertained such facts they shall
announce the same in a loud voice.
See notes to sec. 83.

An. Code, sec. 73. 1904, sec. 71. 1896, eh. 202, sec. 66. 1901, ch. 2. 1908, ch. 576.
1912, ch. 492. 1914, ch. 225, sec. 71.

80. 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 62,
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 inter-
section 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 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.

The foregoing provisions to apply to Baltimore City, Baltimore County,
Garrett County, Allegany County, Washington County, Frederick County,
Carroll County, Harford County, Montgomery County, Howard County,