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or names, instead of the initial or initials thereof, or because of
an error in the number of his residence on the register, pro-
vided a majority of the judges are satisfied that the person offer-
ing to vote is the identical person who is registered, and that
he intended to register his true name and residence. Unless a
majority of the judges are of the opinion that the person so
challenged is entitled to vote, the judge at the ballot-box shall
endorse upon his ballot, the word "rejected, " and return the
same still folded, and with its coupon attached, to the judge
holding the ballots, and the clerks of election shall draw a line
through the name and number of said person as entered on their
poll-books, and write thereafter the word "rejected, " or if for
any other reasons a person who has received a ballot shall leave
the polling place without voting, they shall likewise draw a line
through his name and number on the poll-books and write there-
after the words "did not vote. " All ballots returned to the
judge holding the ballots, shall be immediately strung by him
upon a cord or wire, provided for the purpose, still folded, and
with the coupons still attached, and each endorsed upon the back
thereof, with the words "spoiled" or "rejected, " or "not voted, "
as the case may be, and all such ballots shall be returned to the
supervisors of elections, as hereinafter provided.

Count of the Ballots.

1896, ch 202.

64. As^soon as the election polls shall have been closed the judges
in their several precincts shall immediately, and at the place of
polling, proceed, as hereinbefore provided, to canvass the votes
cast, having first sealed up the unused ballots remaining of the
package last broken by them and endorsed the same with their
signatures as "Unused Ballots. " The canvass shall not be ad-
journed or postponed until it shall have been fully completed, nor
until the several statements hereinafter required to be made by
the judges and clerks shall have been made out, signed and sealed
by them. The judges shall have the right to station police offi-
cer or officers of the peace within the room wherein such canvass
is made, in order to keep the peace. The challengers and
watchers shall be allowed to be present inside the guard-rail, and
so near that they can see that the judges and clerks are faithfully
performing their duties.