258 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

tied to be present may conveniently see every ballot deposited
therein. The sealed package of ballots shall not be opened until
after the ballot-box shall have been so examined, closed and
locked by the judges.

1896, ch. 202.

61. At every election each qualified voter shall be entitled to
receive one official ballot. The person applying therefor to
the judge of election holding the ballots shall give his name and
residence, and the said judge shall repeat the same in a loud
and distinct voice, and if such name be found upon the registers
by the judges having the custody thereof, they shall repeat
the said name, and the voter shall be allowed to enter the space
inclosed by the guard-rail, and the judge holding the ballots,
shaving first written in ink the voter's name and number upon
the coupon attached to one of them, shall deliver said ballot to
the voter after having likewise written in ink his own name

•or initials upon the back thereof, and the two clerks of election

•shall at the same time enter the number and name of the voter
upon their poll-books. Upon receipt of his ballot the voter
shall forthwith, and without leaving the inclosed space, retire
alone to one of the booths or compartments and prepare his
'ballot by marking with an indelible pencil after the name of
the person or persons for whom he intends to vote, and to the
right thereof in the blank space provided therefor a cross—for

•example, X; and in case of a question submitted to a vote of
the people by marking likewise in the appropriate space a cross

• against the answer which he desires to give. This provision
shall be directory as far as the instrument for marking the ballot
is concerned. Any voter who desires to vote for an entire group
may make a cross, as above described, in the appropriate space
After the emblem or name of the political organization above
such group. Not more than one voter shall be permitted to
occupy any one booth or compartment at one time, and no voter
shall remain in or occupy a booth longer than may be, necessary
to prepare his ballot, and in no event longer than five minutes in
case all such booths or compartments are in use and other voters
are waiting to occupy the same. Before leaving the voting
booth or compartment the voter shall fold his ballot without dis-
playing" the marks thereon, in the same way it was folded when