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manner: They shall open the ballots, and all of these shall
be canvassed separately by one of the judges sitting between
two other judges, which judge shall call out each name and
the office for which it is designated, the other judges looking
at the ballot at the same time, and the clerks making tally of
the same, or the said judges may first canvass and count the
"straight" or full tickets, laying aside, whilst so doing, the
" split " or " scratched " tickets, and after they have so can-
vassed and counted the straight or full tickets they shall, if
such there are, proceed to call off, canvass and count each
name and the office for which it is designated on the split or
scratched tickets so previously laid aside, the several judges
looking at each ballot and the clerks making tally of the same.
When all the ballots have been canvassed in this manner, the
election clerks shall compare their tallys' together and ascer-
tain the total number of votes received by each candidate,
and when they agree upon the numbers one of them shall
announce in a loud voice to the judges the aggregate number
of votes received by each candidate. If requested by any
watcher or challenger present at any canvass, it shall be the
duty of the judges, and each of them, to exhibit to such
watcher or challenger any ballot cast, fully opened or in such
condition and manner that he may fully read and examine the
same, but the judge shall not allow any ballot to be taken
from their hands. As the ballots are counted they shall be
strung upon a strong twine.
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67. When the canvass of the ballots shall have been com-
pleted and the clerks shall have announced to the judges the
total number of votes received by each candidate, each of the
judges of election, in turn, shall then proclaim in a loud voice
the total number of votes received by each person voted for
in such precinct and the office for which he is designated, and
the number of votes for and the number of votes against any
proposition which shall have been submitted to the vote of the
people; such proclamation shall be prima facie evidence of
the result of the canvass of such ballots. In the city of Bal-
timore the judges shall immediately after such proclamation
deliver to a policeman on duty at the polling place, a state-
ment subscribed with their names, which shall be sealed up
and forthwith conveyed by the said policeman to the office
of the board of police commissioners, whose duty it shall be
to file and preserve the same. Such statements shall contain
the total number of votes in the ballot-box and the number;
of votes found therein for each and every candidate, and any
person applying may inspect the same.
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