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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 officer 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.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 65.

70. Immediately after the closing of the polls before the
ballot-box is opened all the coupons taken from the ballots cast
shall be destroyed and each of the election clerks shall write
his name in each of the poll-books immediately under the
name of the last voter, and the judges shall write in ink,
opposite to and against the name of each person entered in
their registers who is not shown by said registers to have voted,
and in the appropriate column headed "Voted" the word "No,"
so that the said column may be wholly filled up, and the judges
shall then compare the registers, make them agree and ascer-
tain the number of persons who by said registers are shown to
have voted at that polling place on that day, and when they
have made comparison and ascertained such facts they shall
announce the same in a loud voice.
Duvall v Miller, 94 Md. 718.

Ibid sec. 66. 1901, ch. 2

71. The judges shall then open the ballot-box and count
and announce the whole number of ballots in the box. They
shall reject any ballots which are deceitfully folded together,
and any ballots which do not have endorsed thereon the name
or initials of the judge who held the ballots. If the voter has
marked more names than there are persons to be elected to an
office, or if there shall be any mark on the ballot other than
the cross mark in a square opposite to the name of a candidate,
or other than the name or names of any candidate written by
the voter on the ballot as provided in section 53, his ballot
shall not be counted. Ballots not counted for such defects
shall be marked " defective " on the back thereof, and shall be
wrapped in a separate package and returned to the ballot-box
as hereinafter directed. No vote shall be counted for any can-
didate opposite whose name no cross mark shall be placed.
They shall open the ballots, and all of them shall be canvassed
separately by one of the judges sitting between two other