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80. The judges shall open the ballot box and count and an-
nounce the Whole number of ballots in the box. They shall re-
ject 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, such ballot shall not be counted. Ballots not
counted, for such defects shall be marked "Defective, '' on the hack
thereof and shall be wrapped in a separate package and 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 solely 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 per-
sons 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 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 on June 1st, 1931.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 121.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 18
of Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
entitled "Elections, " sub-title "Registration, " so as to make
the hours of registration as provided by said section conform

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