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delivery, they shall be lost, destroyed, or stolen, the Board of Super-
visors of Elections or custodian shall cause other ballot-labels to be pre-
pared, printed or written, as nearly in the form of the official ballot-labels
as practicable, and shall cause such ballot-labels to be used in the same
manner, as nearly as may be, as the official ballot-labels would have been
used.

(f) The judges of election shall sign a certificate showing: (1) the
identifying number or other designation of the voting machine; (2) the de-
livery of the keys in a sealed envelope; (3) the number on the seal upon
the machine; (4) the number registered on the protective counter or
device; (5) that all of the counters were set at zero (000) ; (6) that the
ballot-labels are properly placed in the machine; and (7) that every vote
indicator in connection with or belonging to a blank space immediately ad-
jacent (either horizontally or vertically) to the space containing the name
of any candidate or the word "Yes" or "No," "For" or "Against," in con-
nection with any question, is locked against operation, which certificate
shall be returned by the judges of election to the Board of Supervisors
of Elections with the other certificates as hereinafter provided.

(g) The machine shall remain locked against voting until the polls are
opened, and shall not be operated except by voters in voting. If any counter
is found not to register zero (000), the judges of election shall immediately
notify the custodian, or the Board of Supervisors of Elections, who shall,
if practicable, adjust or cause the counters to be adjusted at zero (000);
but, if it shall be found impracticable for the custodian or other person
authorized by the said Board to arrive in time so to adjust such counters
before the time set for opening the polls, the judges shall immediately
make a written record of the designation or designating letter or number
of each counter, together with the number registered thereon, hereinbelow
called the initial number, and shall sign and post the same upon the wall
of the polling-place, where it shall remain until the polls are closed; and,
in filling out the return of the election, if the final number of such counter
is greater than the initial number, the election officers shall subtract the
initial number from the final number and enter the difference on the re-
turns as the vote for the candidate or on the question represented by such
counter; if the final number of such counter is less than the initial number,
the judges of election shall add one thousand to the final number and
shall subtract the initial number from the sum so ascertained, and shall
enter upon the return as the vote for the candidate or on the question repre-
sented by such counter the final number plus one thousand less the initial
.number.

(h) The exterior of the voting machine, and every part of the polling-
place, shall be in plain view of the judges of election and watchers. Every
voting machine shall be located in the polling-place, at least six feet back
of the guard-rail, in such a position that, unless its construction shall re-
quire otherwise, the ballot-labels on the face of the machine can be seen
plainly by the judges of election and watchers when the machine is not
occupied by a voter. The judges of election shall not themselves be, nor
allow any other person to be, in any position that will permit one to see
or ascertain how a voter votes, or how he has voted. The said, judges, or
one of them, shall inspect the face of the machine at frequent intervals,
to see that the ballot-labels are in their proper places, and that the ma-
chine has not been injured or tampered with.