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any such challenger to inquire or ascertain for what candidate or
candidates any voter may intend to vote or has voted, or to
confer in the polling room, with any voter, or to assist him in
the preparation of his ballot, and any challenger offering or
attempting to do so may lawfully be ejected by the judges,
and shall also be subject to the punishment hereinafter pro-
vided. A challenger or watcher may be removed at any time
by the same person or committee, or by the chairman of the
committee which appointed him. Citizens, other than accredited
challengers or watchers, who desire to challenge the vote of any
person then inside the polling room, shall be permitted to enter said
room for that purpose; but a majority of the judges may limit
the number of persons to be allowed in the polling room at any
one time for such purpose, and all such persons shall leave the
polling room as soon as the right to vote of the persons challenged
by them shall have been decided.

1896, ch. 202.

58. Each clerk of elections shall keep a poll-book containing
a column headed "Number, " and another headed "Name of
Voter. " All entries therein shall be made in ink, and the num-
ber and name of each person to whom a ballot is given shall be
entered on each of the poll-books by the clerk having charge
thereof in regular succession under the proper heading, the num-
ber of such voter being placed opposite his name in the column
headed "Number, " but if the vote of any person whose name
has thus been entered on poll-books shall be afterwards rejected
by the judges, the clerks shall thereupon draw a line through
his name and number, as hereinafter provided.

Ibid.

59. The supervisors of elections shall provide in each room
designated by them as polling places, a sufficient number of
voting booths or compartments in which voters may conveniently
mark their ballots. Said booths or compartments shall be con-
structed of plank not less than one inch in thickness, and shall
be of such width, depth and height that the voter in marking his
ballot therein, shall be screened from the observation of others,
and for this purpose a short curtain shall be hung across the front
of each compartment at a convenient height, and so as to extend