190 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 95

judge holding the ballots, and the clerks of election shall
draw a line through the name and number of said person as
entered on their poll books, and write thereafter the word
"rejected, " or if for any other reason a person who has re-
ceived a ballot shall leave the polling place without voting,
they shall likewise draw a line through his name and number
on the poll books, and write thereafter the words "did not
vote. " All ballots returned to the judge holding the ballots
shall be immediately strung by him upon a cord or wire, pro-
vided for the purpose, still folded and with the coupons still
attached, and each endorsed upon the back thereof with the
words "spoiled, " or "rejected, " or "not voted, " as the case may
be, and all such ballots shall be returned to the Supervisors
of Elections, as hereinafter provided.

In those precincts of Baltimore City in which voting ma-
chines shall be used, when the right of any person to vote shall
be challenged, such right shall be determined immediately
after such person shall have signed an application blank, as
provided in Section 72 hereof, and the same proceedings shall
then take place as shall take place in other precincts upon the
delivery of the ballot to the judge at the ballot box.

82-A. The provisions of Sections 78, 79, 80 and 82 of this
Article shall not apply to elections held in those precincts in
which voting machines shall be used.

83. The judges shall make duplicate statements or returns
of the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible,
be made upon a single sheet of paper and shall contain a
caption stating the day on which and the number of the
election precinct, and the county or ward of the city in rela-
tion to which said statement shall be made, and the time of
opening and closing the polls of such precinct, and showing
the whole number of votes in the ballot-box or recorded upon
the voting machines, and the whole number of votes given for
each person, designating the office for which they were given.
Such statement shall be written or partly written and partly
printed in words at length; and in case a proposition of any
kind has been submitted to a vote at such election, such state-
ments shall also show in like manner the whole number of
votes cast for or against such proposition, and at the end of
such statement shall be written a certificate that the same is
correct in all respects; which certificate and each sheet of
paper forming a part of the statement shall be subscribed by
the judges and clerks in the years 1938 and 1939, and in 1940
and subsequent years by the judges and clerks in those pre-
cincts in which paper ballots shall be used, and by the judges
in those precincts in which voting machines shall be used.