ELECTIONS 1549

such instruction, the said Supervisors or the custodians shall call such
meeting or meetings of the judges of election as shall be necessary. Each
judge of election shall, upon notice, attend any such meeting or meetings
called for his instruction and receive such instructions as shall be neces-
sary for the proper conduct of the elections with the machine. No judge
of election shall serve in any election at which a voting machine is used,
unless he shall have received such instruction and is fully qualified to per-
form his 'duties in connection with the machine, and has received a cer-
tificate to that effect from the Supervisors of Elections or one of the cus-
todians of the machines; provided, however, that this shall not preyent
the appointment of a judge of election to fill a vacancy arising on the
day of election, or on the preceding day.

1937, ch. 94, sec. 224K.

270. (a) The Board of Supervisors of Elections shall deliver the keys,
which unlock the operating mechanism and the registering counters or
counter compartment of the voting machine, to one of the judges of elec-
tion not earlier than noon the Saturday preceding an election, nor later
than three-quarters of an hour before the time set for the opening of the
polls, and shall take his receipt therefor. The keys shall be enclosed in
a sealed envelope, on which shall be written or printed: (1) the number
of the voting machine; (2) the name or designation of the precinct; (3)
the number of the seal; and (4) the number registered on the protective
counter or device as reported by the custodian.

(b) No judge of election shall open an envelope so delivered, until an-
other judge of the opposite political party shall be present in the polling-
place, and shall have examined the envelope to see that it has not been
opened.

(c) Before opening the envelope, all the judges of election present shall
examine the number on the seal on the machine, and the number registered
on the protective counter or device, and shall see whether they are the
same as the numbers written on the envelope containing the keys. If either
number shall be found not to agree, the envelope shall remain unopened
until the judges of election shall have notified the custodian of voting
machines, or the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and until the custodian
or some other person authorized by the said Board shall have presented
himself at the polling-place for the purpose of re-examining the machine,
and shall have certified that it is properly arranged.

(d) But if the numbers on the seal and the protective counter or device
shall be found to agree with the numbers on the envelope, the judges shall
examine the registering counters, and, for that purpose, shall open the doors
concealing such counters, if the construction of the voting machine shall so
require, and, before the polls are opened, the judges shall carefully ex-
amine every counter, and shall see that it registers zero (000), and shall
allow the watchers to examine the counters.

(e) If the ballot-labels containing the names of offices, parties, candi-
dates, and questions, shall not be in their proper places on the voting ma-
chine, the judges, forthwith, shall notify the custodian of voting machines,
or the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and the machine shall not be
used until the custodian, or some other person authorized by the said Board,
shall have supplied ballot-labels as herein prescribed. If the ballot-labels for
a voting machine shall not be delivered at the time required, or if, after