ELECTIONS 1471

the initials, one or more of his Christian or given name instead of his full
name or one or more of his Christian or given name or names, instead of
the initial or initials thereof, or because of an error in the number of his
residence on the register, provided a majority of the 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 residence. 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 "rejected," 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 ballots shall be immediately
strung by him upon a cord or wire, provided for the purpose, still folded
and with the coupons still attached, and each endorsed 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.

In those precincts of Baltimore City in which voting machines shall be
used, when the right of any person to vote shall be challenged, such right
shall be determined immediately after such person shall have signed an
application blank, as provided in Section 107 hereof, and the same proceed-
ings shall then take place as shall take place in other precincts upon the
delivery of the ballot to the judge at the ballot box.

Cited but not construed in Duvall v. Miller, 94 Mr. 714.

This section referred to in sustaining local election law for Havre de Grace. See
notes to sec. 133. Moore v. Bay, 149 Md. 294.

Count of the Ballots.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 78. 1912, sec. 71. 1904, sec. 69. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 64. 1906,

ch. 544, sec. 69.

114. 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 canvass the votes cast, having first sealed
up the unused ballots remaining of the package last broken by them, and
endorse the same with their signatures as unused ballots. The canvass shall
not be adjourned nor postponed until it shall have been fully completed, or
until the several statements and tally-sheets 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 officers 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 be present inside
the guard-rail and so near that they can see that the judges and clerks are
faithfully performing their duties.

See notes to sec. 116.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 79. 1912, sec. 72. 1904, sec. 70. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 65.

115. 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