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judges, which judge shall call out each name and the office for
which it is designated and the other judges looking at the bal-
lot at the same time, and the clerks making tally of the same.
When all the ballots have been canvassed in this manner, the
election clerks shall compare their tallies together and ascer-
tain the total number of votes received by each candidate,
and when they agree upon the numbers, one of them shall
announce in a loud voice to the judges the aggregate number of
votes received by each candidate. If requested by any watcher
or challenger present at any canvass, it shall be the duty of the
judges and each of them to exhibit to such watcher or chal-
lenger any ballot cast, fully opened or in such condition and
manner that he may fully read and examine the same, but the
judges shall not allow any ballot to be taken from their hands.
As the ballots are counted they shall be strung upon a strong
twine.
Duvall v. Miller, 94 Md. 709. Coulehan v. White, 95 Md. 714.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 67.

72. When the canvass of the ballots shall have been com-
pleted, and the clerks shall have announced to the judges the
total number of votes received by each candidate, each of the
judges of election, in turn, shall then proclaim in a loud voice
the total number of votes received by each person voted for
in such precinct and the office for which he is designated, and
the number of votes for and the number of votes against any
proposition which shall have been submitted to the vote of the
people; such proclamation shall be prima fade evidence of
the result of the canvass of such ballots. In the city of Balti-
more the judges shall, immediately after such proclamation,
deliver to a policeman on duty at the polling place a statement
subscribed with their names, which shall be sealed up and
forthwith conveyed by the said policeman to the office of the
board of police commissioners, whose duty it shall be to file
and preserve the same. Such statements shall contain the
total number of votes in the ballot-box and the number of
votes found therein for each and every candidate, and any per-
son applying may inspect the same.

Election Returns.

Ibid. sec. 68

73. The judges shall make duplicate statements or returns
of the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible,
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