HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 663

any voting machine unless the voter applying to them shall
produce and surrender to them or one of them an official voter's
certificate duly signed or initialed by the Clerk; and in the
event any voter shall leave the voting machine booth without
registering a vote the Judge holding such voter's certificate
shall endorse a memorandum of that fact on the certificate of
such voter, and sign his name; and at the close of the polls
the Judges in charge of the voting machines shall account for
all certificates surrendered to them, to be returned to the Board
of Supervisors of Elections wrapped and sealed in a package
marked "Surrendered Voters' Certificates", bearing the signa-
tures of the Judges and Clerks. The unused and spoiled
voters' certificates shall be wrapped and sealed in a separate
package, marked "Unused and Spoiled Voters' Certificates",
bearing the signatures of the Judges and Clerks; and likewise
returned to the said Board with other election equipment.

224G. After the time provided for the closing of the polls,
and after all qualified voters then within the polling places
have had an opportunity to register their respective votes, the
Judges of Election serving in polling places in Montgomery
County wherein voting machines may be installed shall seal
the operating lever of each voting machine against further
operation, with the numbered metallic seal provided for that
purpose, and they shall then unlock and open the door cover-
ing the dials in the presence of all of the Judges and Clerks
and such duly accredited watchers and challengers who may
lawfully be within such polling place, giving full view of
the numbers registered on the tabulating devices or dials of
each machine. The two Clerks shall each take a duplicate form
of statement of votes cast and shall enter thereon the serial
number of the voting machine and the result of the voting as
the same shall be read in a distinct and loud voice, in the
order of the offices or questions as they appear on the ballot
labels, by two Judges of Election of opposite party affiliation
to each other, who shall in each case announce the desig-
nating number and letter, if any, on each set of dials or
tabulators, and the figures registered on each dial. The entries
on said statements shall be made by writing out the figures
in words at length, followed by the corresponding numerical
characters. The figures so recorded on each statement shall
be verified by having the other two Judges of Election, who
did not take the original reading of the tabulators, make a
similar inspection of the dial readings and a similar announce-
ment of their findings; after which the same process shall be
repeated for each voting machine in said polling-place, with
separate duplicate statements of votes cast for each machine.
During such tabulation of the vote the counting compartment