676 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 370

title "Count of Ballots, " be and it is hereby repealed, and that
Section 80 of said Article be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

80. 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 indorsed thereon the name or
initial of the judge who held the ballots, 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 candidates written by the voter on the ballot as
provided in Section 62, such ballot shall not be counted. Bal-
lots not counted for such defects shall be marked "Defective, "
on the back thereof and shall be wrapped in a separate package
arid returned to the ballot-box as hereinafter directed. No vote
shall be counted for any candidate opposite whose name no
cross-mark shall be placed, and no ballot shall be rejected sole-
ly because any part or portion of the cross-mark extends beyond
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 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 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved April 26, 1927.