HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1471

tion days. The duplicate forms shall be arranged for the
entire city or county, as the case may be, in alphabetical order
and constitute the permanent office record of the Board; they
shall not be open to public inspection except in the presence
of a clerk of the Board nor shall they be removed from the
office of the Board except on order of Court. The registra-
tion records shall be open to public inspection under reason-
able regulations at all times when the office of the Board is
open for business except that during the thirty-five days pre-
ceding and the ten days following an election such records
shall not be so opened to public inspection except upon the
special order of the Board.

The binders containing the precinct registers shall be securely
locked and the keys safely kept by the Supervisors of Elections
and the cabinets containing the duplicate forms shall be
securely locked and neither the binders nor the cabinets shall
be unlocked except by a clerk or other employee of the Board
of Supervisors upon the authorization of said Board.

22. If at any general or primary election, it shall appear
that the original registration form of any person presenting
himself as a voter is not among the cards constituting the
precinct register for use on election day, such person may
apply to the Board of Supervisors of Elections, or a majority
of them, on forms to be provided by said Board, for a cer-
tificate entitling him to cast his ballot in spite of the absence
of such original registration form. Upon receipt of any
application for such certificate, accompanied by proof of the
identity of the applicant, a majority of the Board shall inspect
the duplicate registration forms retained in the office of said
Board, and if such inspection discloses that the applicant is a
duly registered voter, a majority of the Board shall make
reasonable effort to locate the applicant's original registration
form. If such form is not found, and if a majority of the
Board shall be satisfied that its absence is not due to fraud
or malfeasance, such Board or a majority thereof shall issue
its certificate, a copy of which shall be retained by the Board,
to the Judges of Elections of the precinct in which the appli-
cant is found to be a registered voter, which certificate shall
be marked "Temporary Certificate of Registration" and shall
be sufficient authority to permit such voter to cast his ballot
in such precinct as though his original registration form were
present. Such certificate, when presented to the Judges of
Elections, shall be retained by said judges and returned to
the Board of Supervisors of Elections at the time prescribed
for the return of the original registration forms.

At the same time a voter receiving such temporary certi-
ficate shall sign a new original registration form containing