HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1517

be challenged, such right shall be determined immediately
after such person shall have signed a voting authority card
as provided in Section 65 hereof, and the same proceedings
shall then take place, as shall take place in other precincts
upon the delivery of the ballot to the judge at the ballot box.

71. As soon as the election polls shall have been closed, the
judges in their several precincts shall immediately, and at the
place of polling, proceed, as hereinbefore provided, to canvass
the votes cast, having first sealed up the unused ballots re-
maining of the package last broken by them, and endorse the
same with their signatures as unused ballots. The canvass
shall not be adjourned nor postponed until it shall have been
fully completed, or until the several statements and tally-
sheets hereinafter required to be made by the judges and
clerks shall have been made out, signed and sealed by them. The
judges shall have the right to station police officers or officers
of the peace within the room wherein such canvass is made
in order to keep the peace. The challengers and watchers shall
be allowed to be present inside the guard-rail and so near that
they can see that the judges and clerks are faithfully perform-
ing their duties.

72. Immediately after closing of the polls before the ballot-
box is opened all the coupons taken from the ballots cast shall
be destroyed and each of the election clerks shall write his
name in each of the poll-books immediately under the name
of the last voter, and the judges shall write in ink, opposite
to and against the name of each person entered in their regis-
ters who is not shown by said registers to have voted, and in
the appropriate column headed "voted" the word "no, " so that
the said column may be wholly filled up, and the judges shall
then compare the registers, make them agree and ascertain
the number of persons who by said registers are shown to have
voted at that polling place on that day, and when they have
made comparison and ascertained such facts they shall an-
nounce the same in a loud voice.

73. 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 57, such ballot shall not be counted.
Ballots not counted for such defects shall be marked "Defec-
tive, " on the back thereof and shall be wrapped in a separate