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such ballot envelopes unopened, unmarked and unchanged in any way in
packages sealed by him to the respective Supervisors of Elections from
whom the return envelopes shall appear to have been sent to the absent
voter whose name appears upon the ballot envelope. All envelopes re-
ceived by the Secretary of State more than seven days after the date of
any election shall be preserved by him for 60 days, and then destroyed
unless ordered to be longer kept by some court having competent juris-
diction.

An. Code, sec. 226. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 226.

232. On the tenth day after each election not counting the date of said
election, the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City and of the several
counties shall meet at the hour of 12 o'clock noon at the usual place for
holding the Circuit Court for the county or in Baltimore City 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 bal-
lots. If said supervisors or a majority of them are satisfied that the pro-
visions 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 qualified voter and entitled to vote
under this sub-title in any precinct or election 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.

An. Code, sec. 227. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 227.

233. When all the ballots have been voted as aforesaid the Supervisors
of Elections shall proceed to canvass and count the same in accordance
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 th'e returns shall all be transmitted to the Board of
Canvassers as hereinafter provided. The Supervisors 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