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any person having served as ballot-clerk shall not be obliged to serve again
for three years thereafter; warrant shall be issued to said ballot-clerks in
the same manner and by the same persons as to the judges of election;
the two ballot-clerks appointed above for each ward, shall on the morning
of the election and after the ballots have been opened by the return judges,
receive the same from the judges of election and have charge thereof; and
shall furnish them to the voters in the manner hereinafter set forth; if
any ballot-clerk, or other officer of election shall fail to appear at the
opening of the polls, or be, or become unable to serve, the vacancy shall
be filled by the board of supervisors of election immediately upon the fact
of said vacancy being called to their attention or by any one of said super-
visors of election, if at the time of notice of such vacancy, said board of
supervisors be not in session.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161-OO.

305. The said board of supervisors of election shall cause each polling
place to be suitably provided with a sufficient number of voting shelves
or compartments to be furnished by the County Commissioners of Wash-
ington County, together with the necessary rails and tables, at or in which
voters may conveniently mark their ballots, so that in marking thereof
they may be in sight, but be screened from the observation of others, and
a guard rail shall be so constructed and placed that only such persons as
are inside said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot boxes, and
of such voting shelves or compartments; the arrangements shall be such
that neither the ballot boxes nor the voting shelves or compartments shall
be hidden from view of those just outside the said guard rail; the number
of such voting shelves or compartments shall not be less than one for every
one hundred voters qualified to vote at such polling place, no persons other
than the said election officers and voters admitted as herein provided, shall
be admitted within said rail except election police appointed by the judges
of election, for the sole purpose of keeping order and enforcing the law;
the number of such election police shall be such as said judges of election
shall determine, and their compensation shall be the same as that of the
judges of election; each voting shelf or compartment shall be kept pro-
vided by the ballot clerks with proper supplies and conveniences for mark-
ing the ballots, and each ballot shall be marked by the voter with the cross-
mark (X) herein mentioned by means of a rubber or other stamp pro-
vided for each booth, and supplied with ink so that the crossmark (X)
shall in all cases be as near as practicable uniform, not more than six
voters in addition to those then within the railing shall be admitted to
the room at one time, and each voter except the officers and representa-
tives before mentioned shall be required after voting to withdraw entirely
out of the room; the judges of election may admit persons from time to
time to aid in determiuing the fact whether a voter is entitled to vote, and
such person shall withdraw at once after their statements shall have been
given.