ART. 33] POLL BOOKS—POLLING PLACES. 1043

1896, ch. 202, sec. 58.

63. Each clerk of election 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
number 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 number 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 after-
wards rejected by the judges, the clerks shall thereupon draw
a line through his name and number as hereinafter provided.

Ibid. sec. 59.

64. 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 con-
veniently mark their ballots. Said booths or compartments
shall be constructed of plank not less than one inch in thick-
ness, and shall be of such width, depth and height that the
voter, in making his ballot therein, shall be screened from the
observations of others, and for this purpose a short curtain
shall be hung across the front of each compartment at a con-
venient height, and so as to extend a little below the shelf
hereinafter mentioned. Each compartment shall have a shelf
within the same, and shall be provided with proper supplies
and conveniences for marking the ballots, and a guard-rail
shall be constructed in said polling place so as to divide the
space occupied by the judges of election and other officials
and persons permitted by law to be within the same from the
public; said guard-rail shall have an entrance and exit therein,
and shall also be so constructed and placed that only persons
who are inside said rail can approach within five feet of the
ballot-boxes. The arrangements of such polling-places shall
be such that neither the ballot-boxes nor the voting booths or
compartments shall be hidden from view of those just outside
of said guard-rail. The number of such compartments shall
not be less than one for every one hundred voters qualified to
vote at such polling place, and not less than five in any city, and
not less than three in any polling place in any county. No
person other than voters engaged in preparing or depositing
their ballots and the election officers shall be permitted to be
within said rail, unless by authority of the judges of election,
for the purpose of keeping order and enforcing the law. The