FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

look or converse with any voter while he is engaged in the
said compartment or voting shelf; no voter, not being one of
said election officers, whose name has been checked on the
registry by the judges, shall be allowed to re-enter said enclosed
space during said election; it shall be the duty of the judges
of election to secure the observance of the provisions of this
section and of other sections relating to the duties of the ballot
clerks, voters and others in and about the polling rooms.

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270 DD. No person shall take or remove any ballot from the
polling place before the close of the polls; if any voter spoils
a ballot he may successively obtain others, one at a time, not
exceeding three in all, upon returning each spoiled one; the bal-
lots thus returned shall be immediately cancelled, and, together
with those not distributed to the voters, shall be preserved ;
and said undistributed ballots and those thus cancelled shall be
securely enveloped and wrapped, marked and sealed, and shall
be delivered by the return judges to the board of supervisors
of election immediately after the election, and they shall then
be destroyed; it shall be the duty of the ballot clerks to keep
an accurate account of all ballots delivered by them to voters,
and they shall account for and deliver to the return judge all
the ballots not delivered to voters.

Spoilt ballots.

270 E E. Any voter who is blind, or who declares to the
ballot clerks that he cannot read, or that by reason of physical
disability he is unable to mark his ballot, may apply to said
two ballot clerks to assist him in the marking thereof.

Assistance to
voters.

270 F F. If the voter marks more names than there are
persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is
impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to be
filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office; no ballot
without the official endorsement and the initial of one of the
ballot clerks shall be allowed to be deposited in the ballot-box
or counted, except in the instances mentioned; ballots not
counted shall be marked defective on the back thereof, and
shall be preserved and disposed of in the same manner as the
rejected ballots.

What ballots
not to be
counted.

270 G G. The necessary expense incurred in carrying out the
provisions of this act shall be paid by the mayor and alderman
of Frederick.

Expenses of
elections.

270 H H. A voter who shall, except as herein otherwise pro-
vided, allow his ballot to be seen by any person with an appar-
ent intention of letting it be known how he is about to vote, or

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ballot.