SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       889

(c) The judges shall then compare the number of voters, as
shown by the counter of the machine, with the number of those
who have voted as shown by the voting authority cards.

16-16. Tabulation of votes.

(a) The judges, in the presence of any candidate, the duly ac-
credited watchers, and all other persons who may be lawfully within
the polling place, shall then proceed as follows to tabulate the votes
cast:

(1)(i) On machines that do not furnish a printed or photo-
graphic record of the setting of the counters and the numbers regis-
tered thereon by voting, the judges shall make visible the registering
counters, and, for that purpose, shall unlock and open the doors
or other covering concealing the same, giving full view of all of the
counter numbers. The judges, under the scrutiny of the watchers,
and in the order of the offices as their titles are arranged on the
machine, shall read and announce, in distinct tones, the designation
or designating number and letter of each counter for each candi-
date's name, the result as shown by the counter numbers, and/or
the designation or designating numbers or letters on each counter,
and the result as shown by the counter numbers for and against
each question voted on.

(ii) The counters shall not be read consecutively along the
party rows or columns, but shall always be read along the office
columns or rows, completing the canvass on each machine for each
office or question before proceeding to the next.

(iii) The vote as registered shall be entered by the judges, in ink,
on duplicate Statement of Votes Cast, or Return Sheets, which,
after the canvass is completed, shall be signed by the judges.

(iv) If more than one voting machine is used in any precinct,
the votes registered on each machine shall be ascertained in like
manner, and separately entered in appropriate spaces on the dupli-
cate Statements of Votes Cast, or Return Sheets.

(v) The total vote cast for each candidate, and for and against
each question, shall then be computed and entered on the duplicate
Statements of Votes Cast, or Return Sheets.

(2) (i) 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 department
be opened and the counters exposed to view but the printed or photo-
graphic record shall be considered as the official Return Sheets for
that machine. In the case of such machines, immediately following
the closing of the polls and after the last voter has voted the judges
shall immediately lock and seal each machine as hereinbefore pro-
vided 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.

(ii) In the event of a mechanical failure of the printing or pho-
tographic 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,