ART. 33] SPOILED BALLOTS—COUNT. 1047

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 registered, his vote shall be received accord-
ingly. 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 rejected because of an error in the spelling of
the voter's name or because of the wrongful omission or addi-
tion of one or more initials of his middle name or names, or
because the voter gives the initials, one or more of his Chris-
tian or given name instead of his full name or one or more of
his Christian or given name or names, instead of the initial
or initials thereof, or because of an error in the number
of his residence on the register, provided a majority of the
judges are satisfied that the person offering 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 reason
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 thereafter the
words "did not vote." All ballots returned to the judge hold-
ing 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, sec. 64.

69. 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 remain-
ing of the package last broken by them and endorsed the same
with their signatures as "unused ballots." The canvass shall
not be adjourned or postponed until it shall have been fully