318 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the square, if the point of intersection of the cross-mark is
within the square or because the voter has marked more names
than there are persons to be elected to an office, but such ballots
shall not be counted, for any candidate in the group of names
so marked. They shall open the ballots, and all of them 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 and the other judges looking
at the ballot at the same time, and the clerks making tally of
the same. When all the ballots have been canvassed in this
manner, the election clerks shall compare their tallies together
and ascertain the total number of votes received by each can-
didate, and when they agree upon the numbers, one of them
shall announce in a loud voice to the judges the aggregate num-
ber 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 judges shall not allow any ballot to be taken from their
hands. As the ballots are counted they shall be strung upon
a strong twine.

The foregoing provisions to apply to Baltimore City, Balti-
more County, Garrett County, Allegany County, Washington
County, Frederick County, Carroll County, Harford County,
Montgomery County, Howard County, Prince George's County,
Calvert County, Charles County, St. Mary's County, Cecil
County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County,
Caroline County, Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Som-
erset County and Worcester County.

SEC. 71-A. This section shall apply only to Anne Arundel
County, in which county the judges shall open the ballot-box
and count and announce the whole number of ballots in the
box, they shall reject any ballots which are deceitfully folded
together, and any ballots which do not. have endorsed thereon
the name or initial of the Judge who held the ballots; if the
voter has marked more names than there are persons to be
elected to any office, or if there shall be any mark on the ballot
other than the cross-mark in a square opposite the name of a
candidate, or other than the name or names of any candidate
written by the voter on the ballot as provided in Section 53,
his ballot shall not be counted. Ballots not counted for such
defects shall be marked "defective" on the back thereof and