shall be printed on paper different in color from the paper used for the official ballot, and there shall be no numbers upon the stubs thereof, but in all other respects such sample ballots shall be precisely like the official ballots. One of such sample ballots shall be furnished upon application at any time on primary day to any voter entitled to vote the ballot of which he requests a sample.

The custodian of primary records shall prepare and furnish for each board of primary election inspectors two tally sheet blanks and two statement of result blanks for each party whose primary election is under the jurisdiction of said board of primary election inspectors. Upon each of said blanks shall be indorsed the name of the party, the name of the county, the number of the assembly district or ward, or the name of the town, and the number of the election district for which said blank is to be used.

Each such tally sheet shall consist of three columns separated from each other by vertical lines running from top to bottom of each page of the tally sheet. In the first column shall be printed. the title of each public office for which a candidate is to be nominated, and, in the case of the party tally sheets, the name of each party position to which members are to be elected. Under the name of each public office, on the party tally sheets, for which candidates are to be nominated and on the same page shall be printed, in alphabetical order, the names of all candidates for the nomination therefor. Under the name of each party position on the party tally sheets and on the same page shall be printed, in alphabetical order, the names of all candidates for election thereto. On all the tally sheets, under the names of the group of candidates for each public office or party position, shall be printed, each on a separate line, the words "blank" and "void" and the phrase “total number of votes cast for this office (or position)," and under such phrase shall be left several blank spaces for writing in names not printed on the ballot. Each name and each such word, phrase or space upon said tally sheet shall be separated from each other name and each other such word, phrase or space next thereto by parallel horizontal lines extending from one side of the sheet to the other. The second column upon the tally sheet shall be headed, at the top of each page thereof, "Space for tally as canvass progresses.' The third column in like manner shall be headed "Space for total number of votes received by each candidate."

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top to bottom of each page of the sheet. In the first column shall be printed the title of each public office, and, in the case of the party statement of result sheets, the name of each party position, and the names of all the candidates therefor, which shall be printed in the same manner and order as upon the tally sheet in the first column thereof. All names shall be separated from each other by parallel horizontal lines. At the head of each statement of result sheet shall be printed the following: Statement of result of the vote cast at the official primary election held on the. . . . . day of (the blanks being properly filled)," and there shall also be printed the name of the county, the number of the assembly district or ward, or the name of the town, and the number of the election district. At the foot of each such statement of result sheet shall appear the following certificate to be signed by the primary election inspectors:

"We hereby certify that the foregoing statement of result is true and correct in all respects.

Board of primary election inspectors.'

All pages of each tally sheet and of each statement of result sheet shall be securely bound together in convenient form. [As amended by chap. 891, Laws of 1911, chap. 820, Laws of 1913, and chap. 244, Laws of 1914.]

§ 80. Delivery of ballots and manner of voting. No voter at a primary election shall be given or be allowed to mark or cast the ballot of any party with which he has not enrolled. The folding and delivery of ballots and the manner of voting shall be the same as prescribed for the folding and delivery of ballots and the manner of voting prescribed by the provisions of this chapter relating to general elections so far the same may be applicable, excepting that each ballot after detachment of the stub by the officer charged with that duty shall be deposited in the separate box provided for the party designated on the ballot, and such officer, in addition to announcing the name of the voter and number of the stub, shall also announce the party name.

§ 81. Unofficial ballots. If, for any cause, the official ballots for any party shall not be provided as required by law at any polling place, upon the opening of the polls of any primary election thereat, or if the supply of official ballots for any party shall be exhausted before the polls are closed, unofficial ballots, printed or written, made as nearly as practicable in the form of the official ballot, may be used.

§ 82. Preparation of ballot by voters. The voter, on retiring to the voting booth, shall prepare his ballot in the following manner: He shall make a cross X mark in the voting square at the left of the name of each candidate for whom he desires to vote. A cross X mark is any straight line crossing any other straight line at any angle within the voting space and no ballot shall be declared void because a cross X mark thereon is irregular in form. It shall not be lawful to make any mark on the ballot other than a cross X mark for the purpose of voting, and such mark shall be made only with a pencil having black lead, and only in the voting space to the left of the name of a candidate; except that the voter may write with a pencil having black lead in the blank space under the title of the proper office or party position the name of any person or persons for whom he desires to vote, whose name or names are not printed upon the ballot; not exceeding with the candidates for whom he has voted by cross X mark the total number of persons by whom such office or position is to be filled. It shall not be lawful to deface or tear a ballot in any manner, nor to erase any printed name, device, figure, word or letter therefrom, nor to erase any mark made thereon by such voter nor inclose in the folded ballot any other paper or any article. If the voter deface or tear a ballot, or wrongly mark the same or make an erasure thereon, he may obtain one additional ballot on returning to the ballot clerk the one so defaced or wrongly marked. [As amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913, and chap. 537, Laws of 1916.]

§ 83. Persons within the guard-rail. From the time of the opening of the polls, until the result of the canvass of the votes cast thereat shall have been announced, and the official statements of such canvass shall have been signed, the ballot boxes and all voted ballots shall be kept within the guard-rail. No person shall be admitted within the guard-rail during such period, except primary election officers, duly authorized watchers, persons admitted by the inspectors to preserve order or enforce the law,

and persons duly admitted for the purpose of voting; provided, however, that any candidate voted for may be present at the canvass of the votes.

The

§ 84. Watchers; challengers; electioneering. ballot and other boxes used at any primary shall be examined by the inspectors in the presence of the watchers, if any, before any ballots are received. One watcher for each election district may be appointed by any political committee, and by any two or more of the persons whose names are upon any ballot to be voted at such primary election. Such watchers may be present at such polling place and within the guard-rail from at least fifteen minutes before the examination of any ballot or other box at the opening of the polls of such primary election until after the announcement of the result of the canvass of the votes cast thereat and the signing of the statements thereof by the inspectors. A reasonable number of challengers, at least one person for any three or more persons of each party holding its primary election at that polling place, whose names are upon any official ballot at such primary election, shall be permitted to remain just outside the guard-rail of each such polling place, where they can plainly see what is done within such rail outside the voting booths, from the opening to the close of the polls thereat. No person shall, while the polls are open, at any polling place do any electioneering within such polling place, or within one hundred feet therefrom, in any public street or in any building or room, or in a public manner, and no political banner, poster or placard shall be allowed in or upon such polling place on any primary day. [As amended by chap. 820, Laws of 1913.]

§ 85. Canvass of votes. As soon as the polls at any official primary election shall close, the primary inspectors shall forthwith publicly canvass and ascertain the result thereof, and they shall not adjourn or postpone the canvass until it shall be fully completed. All questions touching the validity of ballots or their conformity with the provisions of this chapter shall be determined by a majority vote of the primary inspectors. The room in which such canvass is made shall be clearly lighted, and such canvass shall be made in plain view of the public. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons during the canvass, to close, or cause to be closed, the main entrance to the room in which such canvass is conducted, in such manner as to prevent ingress or egress thereby. The

primary inspectors shall proceed to canvass the vote by counting the ballots found in the ballot boxes without unfolding them, except so far as to ascertain that each ballot is single, and by comparing the ballots found in each box with the number shown by the enrollment book to have been deposited therein. If the ballots found in any box shall be more than the number of ballots so shown to have been deposited therein, such ballots shall be replaced, without being unfolded, in the box from which they were taken, and shall be thoroughly mingled therein, and one of the inspectors designated by the board shall, without seeing the same and with his back to the box, publicly draw out as many ballots as shall be equal to such excess, and, without unfolding them, forthwith destroy them. If two or more ballots. shall be found in a ballot box so folded together as to present the appearance of a single ballot, they shall be destroyed if the whole number of ballots in such ballot box exceeds the whole number of ballots shown by the enrollment book to have been deposited therein, and not otherwise. If there lawfully be more than one ballot box for the reception of ballots voted for at any one polling place, no ballot found in the wrong ballot box shall be rejected, but shall be counted in the same manner as if found in the proper box, if such ballots shall not, together with the ballots found in the proper ballot box, make a total of more ballots than are shown by the enrollment book to have been deposited in the proper box. The chairman only of the board. of primary officers shall unfold the ballots taken from a ballot. box. When a ballot is not void, and a primary election inspector or a duly authorized watcher shall, during the canvass of the vote, declare his belief that any particular ballot has been written upon or marked in any way for the purpose of identification, the inspectors shall write on the back of such ballot" Protested as marked for identification," and shall specify over their signatures upon the back thereof the mark or markings upon such ballot to which objection is made. The votes upon each such ballot shall be counted by them as if not so protested. If any ballot shall be rejected as void, the reason for such rejection shall be written on the back thereof by the chairman, or by an inspector designated by him. All ballots rejected as void, and all ballots protested as marked for identification, shall be enclosed in a separate sealed package, which shall be endorsed on the outside thereof with the names of the inspectors, the designation of the election district, and