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the ballot-boxes shall be inspected by the judges of election in the
presence of any persons who may choose to attend, and placed in a
conspicuous position, in full view of persons outside the polling
place, and shall not be moved nor unlocked until after the elec-
tion is over and the votes are to be counted.

1886, ch. 503.

283. The said judges of election shall have power to examine
under oath, to be administered by them, any person offering to
vote at any such election, touching his qualifications and right to

vote; but before such examination it shall be their duty to take
irom him the ballot which he shall tender, and in case of the re-
jection of the said ballot they shall not put said ballot in the
ballot-box, but preserve it and all other rejected ballots, and return
them with the names and residences of the persons offering them,

endorsed on the back thereof, in a sealed package, to the president
of the managing convention, to be kept by him in the same
.manner as legal ballots are hereinafter required to be kept.

Ibid.

284. Every voter shall deliver to the judge or judges of elec-
tion of the ward in which he offers to vote a ballot on which
shall be written or printed the name or names of the person or
persons voted for, and the position for which the vote is given
plainly designated; and the ballots so delivered to and received by
the judges of election shall be deposited in the ballot-box until
the poll is closed.

Ibid.

285. It shall be the duty of the said clerks of election to enter
the name and residence of each person who casts a vote at said
election, plainly in the poll-book, and also to perform such other
duties as are prescribed by this sub-title of this article to be by
them performed.

Ibid.

286. No person shall be permitted to be in the room selected
as the polling-place of the ward during the time any such election
is being held, except the judges, clerks and such police officers
as may be designated to attend thereat by the police board, upon