ELECTIONS 1551

(i) During an election, the door, or other covering of the compartment
containing the counters of the machine, shall not be unlocked or opened,
or the counters exposed, except by the action of the proper custodian of
voting machines for good and sufficient reason, a statement of which shall
be made in writing and signed by him and attested by the signatures of
the judges of election, or except upon the written order of the Board of
Supervisors of Elections for good and sufficient reason which shall be stated
in the order.

1937, ch. 94, sec. 224L.

271. (a) During the thirty days next preceding an election, the Board
of Supervisors of Elections shall place on public exhibition, in such public
places, on such days, and at such times as they may deem most suitable
for the information and instruction of the voters, one or more voting ma-
chines, containing the ballot-labels, and showing the offices and questions to
be voted upon, the names and arrangements of parties, and, so far as prac-
ticable, the names and arrangement of the candidates to be voted for. Such
machine or machines shall be under the charge and care of a person compe-
tent as custodian and instructor. No voting machine, which is to be as-
signed for use in an election, shall be used for such public exhibition and
instruction, after having been prepared and sealed for the election.

(b) During such public exhibition and instruction, the counting mecha-
nism of the voting machine shall be concealed from view, and the doors, or
cover concealing the same, shall be opened, if at all, only temporarily,
and only upon written authorization from the Board of Supervisors of
Elections.

(c) Prior to any election, the Board of Supervisors of Elections may
cause copies of any diagram or diagrams, required to be furnished with
voting machines at polling-places, to be made, either in full size or in re-
duced size, and to be posted, published, advertised or distributed among the
voters in such manner as the said Board may deem desirable.

1937, ch. 94, sec. 224M.

272. (a) The judges of election shall, with the aid of the diagrams
herein authorized, and the mechanically operated model, instruct each
voter, before he enters the voting machine booth, regarding the operation
of the machine, and shall give the voter opportunity personally to operate
the model.

(b) No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance in voting at
any election, unless he shall declare under oath to the judges of election
that by reason of blindness or physical disability he is unable to read the
names upon the ballot-labels or to see the machine, or, without assistance,
to prepare it for voting, or enter the voting machine booth without as-
sistance. Upon making and filing with the judges such affidavit, the voter
shall retire to a voting machine, with two of the judges of opposite political
parties, and then and there one of said judges in the presence of the other
shall operate the machine as such voter shall direct, the voter himself nam-
ing one by one the candidates for whom he desires his vote to be recorded
and not indicating the candidates by a general designation as the candidates
of any one politicalparty. The ballot-label shall not be read to such voter,
nor shall any suggestion of any kind be made by either of sard judges to
show him as to how his choice shall be indicated, but the only assistance