4780 ARTICLE 22.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161PP.

306. Any person desiring to vote, shall give his name, and if requested
so to do, his residence, to one of the ballot clerks to be designated for this
purpose by the judges, who shall thereupon announce the same in a loud
and distinct tone of voice, and if such name is found by the judges of
election upon the list of registered voters, the voter shall be allowed to
enter the space enclosed by the guard rail as above provided; a ballot clerk
shall give him one and only one ballot; before handing the ballot to the
voter the ballot clerk shall place his own initials immediately beneath the
fac-simile signature, and so that the same will plainly appear when the
ballot shall have been folded as required by the next section; besides the
election officers not more than four voters in excess of the number of voting
shelves or compartments provided shall be allowed in said enclosed space
at one time.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161QQ.

307. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forthwith and without
leaving the enclosed space return alone to one of the voting shelves or com-
partments, and shall prepare his ballot by making in the appropriate mar-
gin or place a cross mark (X), opposite the name of the candidate of his
choice for each office to be filled; and in case of a question submitted to the
vote of the people, by making in the appropriate margin or place a cross
(X) against the answer which he desires to give; in marking such a ballot
any voter shall be at liberty to use or copy any unofficial sample ballot
which he may choose to mark or to have had marked in advance of en-
tering the polling place or booth to assist him in marking the official ballot,
but no voter shall be at liberty to use or bring into the polling place any
unofficial sample ballot printed upon paper, the color and quality now re-
quired to be used for the printing of the ballots under this article; before
leaving the voting shelf or compartments the voter shall fold his ballot
without displaying the cross marks thereon in the same way it was folded
when received by him, and so that the initials of the ballot clerk shall ap-
pear and he shall keep the same so folded until he has voted; he shall vote
in the manner provided in this article, leaving the enclosed space, and
shall hand his ballot to the judge of election with the official endorsement
uppermost; he shall mark and deposit his ballot without undue display,
and shall quit said enclosed space as soon as he has voted; no voter shall be
allowed to occupy a voting shelf or compartment already occupied by an-
other, nor to occupy a voting shelf or compartment for more than five
minutes, in case of all such shelves or compartments are in use, and other
voters are waiting to occupy the same; no voter waiting his turn or other
shall overlook or converse with any voter while he is engaged in the said
compartment or voting shelf; no voter not being one of said election
officers, whose name has been checked on the registry by the judges shall
be allowed to re-enter said enclosed space during said election; it shall
be the duty of the judges of election to secure the observance of the pro-
visions of this section and of other sections relating to the duties of the
ballot clerk, voters and others in and about the polling rooms.