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for filling out and signing the certificates on the outside of
the ballot envelops have been substantially complied with, and
that the person signing the voter's certificate is a duly quali-
fied voter and entitled to vote under this Act in any precinct
or election district of their respective county or city and has
not already voted there in person on election day, they shall
open the ballot envelope and remove the ballot therefrom and
place it in a ballot box or ballot boxes prepared for that pur-
pose. When any ballot envelope is opened the Supervisors of
Elections shall enter in the appropriate register the fact that,
the voter whose name appears thereon has voted, and such entry
shall be the initials "V. M. " to indicate that the vote has been
by mail. If there be more than one ballot in the ballot envel-
ope all shall be rejected. At primary elections the ballot shall
not be counted unless it is a ballot of the political party with
which the voter is affiliated. Ballots printed "Mail Ballots"
may be marked by any kind of pencil or ink.

227. When all the ballots have been voted as aforesaid the
Supervisors of Elections shall proceed to canvass and count
the same in. accordance with the provisions relating to the can-
vass and count of votes in such city or county by judges and,
clerks of elections. The Supervisors of Elections shall appoint
such clerks as may be necessary to keep the tallies for each pre-
cinct or district in which ballots are counted and canvassed
by them, and the tallies and the returns shall all be transmitted
to the Board of Canvassers as hereinafter provided. The Su-
pervisors of Elections upon completing the count shall make
the statements or returns of the result as required to be made
by judges of elections for every precinct or election district
in which mail ballots have been counted, and at the end, of
such return shall sign a certificate that the same is correct in
all respects. If any Supervisor shall decline to sign such ire-
turn the same action shall be taken by him as is required to be
taken by a judge of election in a similar case.

The Supervisors of Elections shall then proceed to sit as a
Board of Canvassers, shall canvass the returns made by them
of mail ballots counted by them as aforesaid and shall canvass
and add up such votes in the total of votes canvassed and
counted by them. The Board of Canvassers shall not conclude
the canvass of votes at any election until after the time for
counting and canvassing votes by mail as aforesaid shall have
expired and until such mail ballots as they shall receive from,
the Supervisors of Elections shall be counted and canvassed as