The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
NEW ELECTION LAW.
Continued from page 2.)
PERCALE AND FLANELETT WRAPPERS, MUSLIN
UNDERWEAR, &c.

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necessary prepare his ballot and longer than
minutes in all such booths compartments in
use, and other voters waiting occupy the same.
Before leaving the voting booth compartment the voter
shall fold his ballot without displaying the marks thereon and
in the way folded when received by him. and he
shall keep the folded until he has voted and that
the signature initials of the Judge whom he received
it. and the and number written the coupon thereof
but nothing else thereon may be seen.
He shall forthwith hand his said ballot the Judge the
baotboN and shall give his and residence and upon his
being identified the person who received said ballot the
Judge shall deposit his ballot in the box-havng first detached
thcrcfom its coupon which he shall then string upon cord
wire to be provided for the purpose and the said shall
forthwith leave the enclosed space The judges having charge
of the registers shall then the column therein headed
Voted in the line with the the voter mark
the word " Voted or the letter W
No ballot without the Endorsement of the name or the
initials of the judge thereon ernbere provided shall
be deposited in said ballot box but deposited shall be
counted for the purpose Of asceag the number thereof
and the Judges shall in ink mark the back thereof the word
"Countcd' and indorse their names
20 ODD Assistance in marking their ballots shall be
given who shall declare under OATH to the Judges
of election that by of blindness physical disability
they unable without assistance mark their ballot upon
making and filing with the Judges such affidavit
and then and there of said clerks the presence the
other shall mark the ballot such shall direct the
voter himself naming by the candidates whom he
desires his ballot to be Marked and indicating the cand
dates by general designation the candidates of any
political party The ballots shall not be read to such voter
nor shall any suggestion of any kind be made by either of
said two clerks to show him how his ballot to be
marked but the only assistance which shall be lawful for
the clerks to give him mark the ballot he without
prompting suggestion from them either of them shall
direct but no ballots shall be marked under this section until
majority of the judges of election shall be satisfied of the
truth of the facts stated such affidavit Voters who not
disabled by blindness physical injury from marking their
ballots shall not be entitled receive in marking
them And with the exceptions in favor of persons blind
incapable from physical injury of marking their ballots with
out assistance distinction discrimination in the of
assistance marking ballots shall be made or against any
duly registered voter for any other cause whatever
20 HI1H The judges shall then open the baot-box
and count and announce the whole number of ballots the
box They shall reject any ballots which decefy folded
together and any ballots which do endorsed thereon
the initials of the judge who held the ballots the
voter has marked than there persons be
elected office there shall be any mark on the ballot
other than the cross-ma square opposite to name of
the candidate other than the of any
ddate written by the voter the ballot provided Section
20 90 his ballot shall not be counted Ballots counted
for such defects shall be marked Defective the back
thereof and shall be wrapped in separate package and
returned to the balotbox hereinafter directed No vote
shall be counted for any candidate opposite whose
cross-mak shall be placed They shall open the ballots and
all of them shall be anvassed separately by the Judges
sitting between two other judges which Judge shall call
each and the office for which designated and the
other judges looking at the ballot the time and the
clerks making tally of same When all the ballots have been
canvassed in this the election clerks shall compare
their taes together and ascertain the total number of votes
received by each candidate and where they agree upon the
numbers Of them shall announce in loud voice to the
judges the aggregate number of received by each can
ddate requested by any watcher challenger present at
any it shall be the duty of the judges and each of
them to exhibit to such watcher challenger any ballot
fully opened or in such condition and that he may