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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 resi-
dence, 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 "re-
jected," 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 bal-
lots shall be immediately strung by him upon a cord or wire, provided for
the purpose, still folded, and with the coupon still attached, and each en-
dorsed 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.

Count of Ballots.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270FFF. 1918 Code, sec. 408.

383. 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 canvas.s the votes cast, having first sealed
up the unused ballots remaining of the package last broken by them, and
endorsed the same with their signatures as "unused ballots." The can-
vass shall not be adjourned or postponed until it shall have been fully
completed, nor until the several statements 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 offi-
cers 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 bo
present inside the guard rail, and so near that they can see that the judges
and clerks are faithfully performing their duties.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270GGG. 191S Code, sec. 409.

384. 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
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 ap-
propriate 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 regis-
ters are shown to have voted at that polling place on that day; and when
they have made comparison and ascertained such fact, they shall announce
the same in a loud voice.