J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            467

return sheet and statement, all of which, after canvass is completed,
shall be signed by the judges. If more than one voting machine is
used in any precinct, the vote registered on each machine, except in
the case where the machine is so constructed as to furnish a printed
or photographic record of the setting of the counters and the num-
bers registered thereon by voting, shall be ascertained in like manner,
and separately entered in appropriate spaces on the general and
triplicate return sheets and statement. The total vote cast for each
candidate, and for and against each question, shall then be computed
and entered on the general and triplicate return sheets and state-
ment. There shall also be entered on the general return sheet and
statement the number of voters who have voted, as shown by the
list of voters and the number who have voted on each machine, as
shown by the public counters, and also the number registered on the
protective counter or device on each machine immediately prior to
the opening of the polls and immediately after the closing thereof
and sealing of the machine. The number or other designation of each
machine used shall also be entered thereon. In case of primary elec-
tions, triplicate return sheets shall be prepared for each party. The
registering counters of the voting machines shall remain exposed to
view until the said returns and all other reports have been fully
completed. During such time, any candidate, or duly accredited
watchers, who may desire to be present, shall be admitted to the
polling place. In the case of all machines so constructed as to furnish
a printed or photographic record of the total vote registered, on the
various counters it shall not be required that the counter compart-
ment be opened and the counters exposed to view but the printed or
photographic records shall be considered as the official return sheets
for that machine. In the case of such machines, immediately follow-
ing the closing of the polls and after the last voter has voted the
judges shall immediately lock and seal each machine as hereinabove
provided and shall then cause the machine to produce the printed or
photographic records thereon and shall thereupon proceed as in the
case of ordinary voting machines, except to the extent to which the
furnishing of the printed or photographic record makes such steps
unnecessary.

In the event of a mechanical failure of the printing or photo-
graphic mechanism in any machine equipped with such mechanism
for recording the setting of the counters and the numbers registered
thereon, the procedure to be followed from and after such failure,
whenever such failure occurs, shall be the same as in the case of
machines not equipped with such mechanism.

(c) The proclamation of the result of the votes cast shall be
announced distinctly and audibly by one of the judges of election,
who shall read the name of each candidate, the designation or desig-
nating numbers and letters of his counters and the vote registered
on each counter, and also the vote cast for and against each question
submitted. During such proclamation ample opportunity shall be
given to any person lawfully present to compare the results so
announced with the counter dials of the machine, or the printed or
photographic record thereof in the case of machines so constructed
as to furnish a printed or photographic record of the setting of the
counters and the numbers registered thereon by voting which have
furnished the same, and any necessary corrections shall then and
there be made by the judges after which the doors or other cover of