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shall then go into one of the booths and enclose within the
envelope furnished him an official ballot; not more than one
voter shall be permitted to occupy any one booth or com-
partment at one time, and no voter shall remain in or occupy
a booth longer than may be necessary to prepare his ballot,
and in no event longer than five minutes, in case all such
booths or compartments are in use and other voters are
waiting to occupy the same; he shall then return said
envelope to one of the judges designated to receive the bal-
lots, and the judge shall deposit the same in the ballot-box,
and if no part of said ballot be exposed so as to show any
of the marks thereon.
56. The judges of election shall before the opening of the
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Booths to be
supplied
with ballots.
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poles put in each voting booth as many official ballots as
they shall deem necessary, and a pencil for marking same,
and shall from time to time inspect said booths to see if
they contain sufficient ballots and a pencil for marking
same.
57. If the voter shall attempt to vote for more than one
candidate for the same office, or both for and against a
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Counting the
ballots.
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proposition submitted, the ballot shall not thereby be ren-
dered totally defective, but shall not be counted for or against
the candidates or proposition so marked, and whenever the
intention of the voter can be arrived at the same may, by a
majority vote, be counted, and no envelope or ballot having
thereon any mark or marks which, in the opinion of a
majority of the judges were intended as designating or dis-
tinguishing mark, shall be counted; where more than one
ballot shall have been enclosed in the same envelope they
shall not be counted. The judges of election, immediately
after the polls are closed on the day of election, shall count
the ballots cast as herein provided, and the clerks shall keep
tally of same on tally sheets provided by the supervisors of
elections; when all the ballots have been canvassed the
election clerks shall compare their tallies and shall ascertain
the total number received by each candidate and when they
agree upon the number one of them shall announce in a loud
voice to the judges the aggregate number of votes received
by each candidate. The chief judge shall then proclaim in
a loud voice the total number of votes received by each
person voted for, and the office for which he is designated
and the number of votes for and the number of votes
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