HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1529

(d) The exterior of the voting machine, and every part of
the polling-place, shall be in plain view of the judges of elec-
tion and watchers. Every voting machine shall be located in
the polling-place, at least six feet back of the guard-rail, in
such a position that, unless its construction shall require other-
wise, the ballot-labels on the face of the machine can be seen
plainly by the judges of election and watchers when the
machine is not occupied by a voter. The judges of election
shall not themselves be, nor allow any other person to be, in
any position that will permit one to see or ascertain how a
voter votes, or how he has voted. The said judges, or one
of them, shall inspect the face of the machine at frequent
intervals, to see that the ballot-labels are in their proper places,
and that the machine has not been injured or tampered with.

(e) During an election, the door, or other covering of the
compartment containing the counters of the machine, shall not
be unlocked or opened, or the counters exposed, except by the
action of the proper custodian of voting machines for good and
sufficient reason, a statement of which shall be made in writing
and signed by him and attested by the signatures of the judges
of election, or except upon the written order of the Board of
Supervisors of Elections for good and sufficient reason which
shall be stated in the order.

(f) Except in Baltimore City, where the procedure shall be
as heretofore specified in Section 65 of this Article, one of the
judges of election shall issue to each voter found upon the reg-
isters to be qualified, an official voter's certificate on a form
provided by the Board of Supervisors of Elections, whereon
said judge shall enter a number corresponding with said vot-
er's number on the poll book, the name of the voter, and the
original signature or initials of said judge, written in ink. At
the same time the other judge of election shall enter on the
poll book the number and name of the voter to whom such
voter's certificate was issued. The two judges of election not
in charge of the registers shall be in charge of the operation
of the voting machines, and they shall permit no one to register
a vote upon any voting machine unless the voter applying to
them shall produce and surrender to them or one of them an
official voter's certificate duly signed or initialed by the judge;
and in the event any voter shall leave the voting machine booth
without registering a vote the judge holding such voter's cer-
tificate shall endorse a memorandum of that fact on the certi-
ficate of such voter, and sign his name; and at the close of
the polls the judges in charge of the voting machines shall
account for all certificates surrendered to them, to be returned
to the Board of Supervisors of Elections wrapped and sealed
in a package marked "Surrendered Voters' Certificates, " bear-
ing the signatures of the judges. The unused and spoiled