260 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

existed; and blanks for such affidavits shall be furnished by the
supervisors of elections in sufficient numbers for each polling
place, and all such affidavits shall be returned with the poll-books.

1896, ch. 202.

63. Any voter who shall, by accident or mistake, spoil his
ballot so that he can not conveniently vote the same, may, on
returning said spoiled ballot to the judge holding the ballots,
receive another in place of it, with his name and the same num-
ber written on the coupon thereof, as on the ballot so returned,
but no voter shall receive more than three ballots from said
judge for the reason aforesaid. The ballots thus returned shall
be immediately cancelled by endorsing thereon the word
"spoiled, " and, together with those not distributed to the voters
shall be preserved and returned to the supervisors of elections,
as hereinafter provided. Every voter who does not vote any
ballot delivered to him, shall, before leaving the polling place,
return such ballot to the judge from whom he received it, and
said returned ballot shall be retained as if said ballot had been
spoiled. When anyone claiming to be a person whose name
appears upon the registers, shall make application for a ballot,
his right to vote at that election may be challenged, but shall
not be determined until after he has marked his ballot and
delivered it to the judge at the ballot-box. The person chal-
lenging shall assign his reason therefor, and one of the judges
shall thereupon administer to the person offering to vote an
oath to make true answers to questions, and it he shall take
said oath, he shall be questioned by the judge or judges touch-
ing said cause of challenge, and he may also be questioned by
the person challenging him in regard thereto, and if a majority
of the judges are of opinion that he is the person so regis-
tered, his vote shall be received accordingly. No one who
is not registered as a qualified voter of the precinct, shall be
entitled to vote, or to receive a ballot, but no vote shall be re-
jected because of an error in the spelling of the voters' name or
because of the wrongful omission or addition of one or more
initials of his middle name or names, or because the voter gives
the initials, one or more of his Christian or given name, instead
of his full name, or one or more of his Christian or given name