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(g) Permit each voter to change his vote for any candidate,
or upon any question appearing upon the ballot-labels, up to
the time he begins the final operation to register his vote, or
indicates or expresses his intention to register his vote;

(h) Permit and require voting in absolute secrecy, and shall
be so constructed that no person can see or know for whom
any other voter has voted or is voting, save a voter whom he
has assisted or is assisting in voting as prescribed by law;

(i) Have voting devices for separate candidates and ques-
tions, which shall be arranged in separate parallel rows or
columns, so that, at any primary election, one or more adjacent
rows or columns may be assigned to the candidates of a party,
and shall have parallel office columns or rows transverse
thereto;

(j) Have a counter, or other device, to be known as a "public
counter", the register of which is visible from the outside of
the machine, which shall show during any period of voting
the total number of voters who have operated the machine
during said period of voting;

(k) Have a protective counter, or other device, the register
of which cannot be reset, which shall record the cumulative
total number of movements of the operating mechanism;

(1) Be provided with a lock or locks, by means of which,
immediately after the polls are closed, or the operation of the
machine for an election is completed, all movement of the
registering mechanism is absolutely prevented;

(m) Be provided with a screen, hood or curtain, which shall
conceal the actions of the voter while voting;

(n) Be constructed of material of good quality, in a neat
and workmanlike manner;

(o) When properly operated, register or record correctly
and accurately every vote cast;

(p) Be so constructed that a voter may readily learn the
method of operating it;

(q) Be safely transportable;

(r) Be so constructed and controlled that, during the
progress of voting, it shall preclude every person from seeing
or knowing the number of votes registered for any candidate,
and from tampering with any of the registering mechanism.

224-G.

(a) The papers, cards or strips, enclosed within the ballot-
frame or frames of any voting machine, and containing the
names of a candidate or candidates, and his, her or their
political party, or the statement of a question to be voted
upon, hereinafter referred to as ballot-labels, shall be printed