FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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voter with the crossmark (X) herein mentioned by means of

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a rubber or other stamp provided for each booth, and supplied

marked.

with ink so that the crossmark (X) shall in all cases be as

near as practicable uniform, not more than six voters in

addition to those then within the railing shall be admitted

to the room at one time, and each voter except the officer;

and representatives before mentioned shall be required after

voting to withdraw entirely out of the room; the judges of

election may admit persons from time to tinie to aid in

determining the fact whether a voter is entitled to vote, and

such persons shall withdraw at once after their statements

shall have been given.

161 PP. Any person desiring to vote, shall give his name,

and if requested so to do, his residence, to one of the ballot

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clerks to be designated for this purpose by the judges, who

vote.

shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct

tone of voice, and if such name is found by the judges of

election upon the list of registered voters, the voter shall be

allowed to enter the space enclosed by the guard rail as

above provided ; a ballot clerk shall give him one and only

one ballot ; before handing the ballot to the voter the ballot

clerk shall place his own initials immediately beneath the

fac-simile signature, and so that the same will plainly appear

when the ballot shall have been folded as required by the

next section ; besides the election officers not more than four

voters in excess of the number of voting shelves or compart-

ments provided shall be allowed in said enclosed space at

one time.

161 QQ. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forth-

with and without leaving the enclosed space return alone to

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one of the voting shelves or compartments, and shall pre-

vote.

pare his ballot by making in the appropriate margin or

place a cross mark (X), opposite the name of the candidate

of his choice for each office to be filled ; and in case of a

question submitted to the vote of the people, by making in

the appropriate margin or place a cross (X) against the

answer which he desires to give ; in marking such a ballot

any voter shall be at liberty to use or copy any unofficial

sample ballot which he may choose to mark or to have had

marked in advance of entering the polling place or booth

to assist him in marking the official ballot, but no voter

shall be at liberty to use or bring into the polling place any

unofficial sample ballot printed upon paper, the color and

quality now required to be used for the printing of the

ballots under this article ; before leaving the voting shelf

or compartments the voter shall fold his ballot without dis-

playing the cross marks thereon in the same way it was