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struction of the voting machine shall permit their separate
return; and such other election materials and supplies as
may be necessary, or as may be required by law.

224-J. Before each election at which voting machines are
to be used, the Supervisors of Election or the custodian
shall instruct in the use of the machine, and in their duties
in connection therewith, all judges of election who are to
serve thereat and who have not previously been instructed
and found qualified; and they shall give to each judge of
election, who has received such instruction and is fully quali-
fied to conduct the election with the machine, a certificate to
that effect. For the purpose of giving such instruction, the
said Supervisors or the custodians shall call such meeting or
meetings of the judges of election as shall be necessary. Each
judge of election shall, upon notice, attend any such meeting
or meetings called for his instruction and receive such in-
structions as shall be necessary for the proper conduct of the
elections with the machine. No judge of election shall serve
in any election at which a voting machine is used, unless
he shall have received such instruction and is fully qualified
to perform his duties in connection with the machine, and
has received a certificate to that effect from the Supervisors
of Election or one of the Custodians of the machines; Pro-
vided, however, that this shall not prevent the appointment
of a judge of election to fill a vacancy arising on the day of
election, or on the preceding day.

224-K.

(a) The Board of Supervisors of Election shall deliver the
keys, which unlock the operating mechanism and the regis-
tering counters or counter compartment of the voting ma-
chine, to one of the judges of election not earlier than noon
the Saturday preceding an election, nor later than three-quar-
ters of an hour before the time set for the opening of the
polls, and shall take his receipt therefor. The keys shall be
enclosed in a sealed envelope, on which shall be written or
printed: (1) the number of the voting machine; (2) the name
or designation of the precinct; (3) the number of the seal;
and (4) the number registered on the protective counter or
device as reported by the custodian.

(b) No judge of election shall open an envelope so deliv-
ered, until another judge of the opposite political party shall
be present in the polling-place, and shall have examined the
envelope to see that it has not been opened.

(c) Before opening the envelope, all the judges of election
present shall examine the number on the seal on the machine,
and the number registered on the protective counter or device,