ted by the inspectors to preserve order or enforce the law, persons duly admitted for the purpose of voting, and persons duly admitted to assist disabled voters, and in the city of Brooklyn the members of the board of canvassers, and in the city of New York persons lawfully designated by candidates to be present at the canvass of the votes. After such boxes are so relocked, while empty at the opening of the polls, they shall not be unlocked or opened until the closing of the polls of such election, and, except as authorized by law, no ballots or other matter shall be placed in them after they are so relocked and before the announcement of the result of such canvass and the signing of such certificate. No person shall deliver to any voter within such guardrail a paster, paster ballot or any other ballot than such as the ballot clerks are lawfully authorized to deliver to a voter. L. 1882, ch. 410. (N. Y. Consol. Act.) L. 1890, ch. 262, § 23. L. 1891, ch. 236. (Brooklyn charter.) Title XX, § 15. § 102. Watchers; challengers; electioneering.- Each political party duly filing certificates of nomination of candidates for offices to be filled at any such election, may, by writing signed by the committee or other similar representative of such organization or by the chairman thereof, and delivered to one of the inspectors of election, appoint not more than two watchers to attend each polling place thereof. No such committee or representative for a town or ward shall appoint watchers for any polling place outside such town or ward. Such watchers may be present at such polling place, and within the guard-rail, from at least fifteen minutes before the unlocking and examination of any ballot-box at the opening of the polls of such election, until after the announcement of the result of the canvass of the votes cast thereat and the signing of the certificate thereof by the inspectors. A reasonable number of challengers, at least one person of each such party, shall be permitted to remain just outside the guard-rail of each such polling place, and 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 and fifty feet therefrom in any public street or room, or in a public manner. R. S., 438, L. 1880, ch. 56, § 3, 4, 5, 7. L. 1890, ch. 262, §§ 24, 35. § 103. Delivery of ballots to voters.-While the polls of such election are open, the voters entitled to vote and who have not previously voted thereat, may enter within the guard-rail of the polling place of such election, for the purpose of voting, in such order that there shall not at any time be within such guard-rail more than twice as many voters as there are voting booths thereat, besides the persons lawfully within such guard-rail for other purposes than voting. Upon entering within the guard-rail, for such purpose, the voter shall forthwith proceed to the ballot clerks and announce his name, and, if in a city, his residence by street and number, or if it have no street number a brief description of the locality thereof, and if required by the inspectors thereat, shall state whether he is over or under twenty-one years of age. If such voter is entitled to vote thereat, and is not challenged, or if challenged and the challenge be determined in his favor, the ballot clerks thereat shall deliver, unfolded, to such voter, a full set, one of each kind, of the official ballots so provided. The ballot clerks may instruct the voter how to fold his ballot, by folding the sample ballot in his presence, or otherwise than by folding an official ballot. Sample ballots may, in the discretion of the ballot clerks, be taken by voters into the voting booths, and left there during the election. L. 1890, ch. 262, § 24. § 104. Preparation of ballots for voting.-The voter upon receiving such official ballots and instructions shall immediately enter one of the voting booths, if there be one vacant, or if none be vacant, as soon as one shall become vacant. Not more than one person shall occupy one voting booth at the same time, except that a voter who shall declare under oath to the inspectors of election that, by reason of total blindness, loss of both hands, such total inability in both hands that he can not use either hand for ordinary purposes, or physical disability by reason of crippled condition or disease to enter the booth alone, he is unable to receive or prepare his ballots without assistance, may select a person for that purpose, who shall be allowed to pass within the guardrail and receive such ballots and to enter the voting booth with such voter and there assist him in preparing his ballot. The person so selected shall not in any manner request, or seek to persuade or induce such voter to vote any particular ballot or for any particular candidate, and shall not directly or indirectly reveal to any other person the name of any candidate voted for by such voter, or any thing occurring within such voting booth, and he shall not remain within the guard-rail longer than is necessary to assist such disabled voter. No voter shall otherwise ask or receive the assistance of any person within the polling place in the preparation of his ballot, or divulge to any one within the polling place the name of any candidate for whom he intends to vote, or for whom he has voted. No person shall occupy a voting booth more than ten minutes while all the other booths are occupied. Within such voting booths and not elsewhere, the name of any person for whom the voter desires to vote for any office named on the official ballot, may be written on the official ballot which the voter proposes to vote; or a paster containing one or more such names or offices may be pasted thereon; or a paster ballot con. taining the names of all the candidates for whom the voter may vote for all such offices, may be pasted thereon. Every such paster or paster ballot shall be not more than four inches wide, shall be printed on white paper, in plain black ink, and in type uniform with that used on the official ballots. The paper on which such pasters or paster ballots are printed shall not be thicker or heavier than the paper on which the official ballots are printed. printed. All such matter written or pasted on an official ballot shall be written or pasted below the perforated line, on the face of the ballot, being the side and division of the ballot on which the names of offices and candidates are are printed, and so that no such pasted matter shall project beyond the sides of the official ballot upon which it is pasted, and so that no part of such paster or paster ballot shall be visible when the ballot is properly folded for voting. Any name so written or pasted upon a ballot voted, shall be deemed the choice of the voter, notwithstanding the name of another candidate for the same office may be upon the original ballot without being erased, covered, or concealed by the written or pasted matter. But if the names of two or more candidates for the same office are printed on such ballot and a less number of names of candidates for such office be written or pasted thereon, each such name printed on the official ballot shall, if not erased, covered or concealed, be deemed the choice of the voter. After the voter has prepared his ballot for voting, and before leaving the booth, he shall fold it and each of the other official ballots in his possession first crosswise by bringing the bottom of each ballot up to the perforated line, and then in the middle lengthwise, in such manner that, when folded, the face of each ballot shall be concealed, and the printed number on the stub and the indorsement on the back of the ballot shall be visible, and so that the stub can be removed without removing any other part of the ballot, and without exposing any part of the face of the ballot below the stub. No voter shall place any other mark upon, or tear or deface any of the ballots so folded by him, and prepared for presentation to the inspectors. If one of the official ballots delivered to a voter shall be spoiled before so prepared, the voter may upon returning to the ballot clerks all the official ballots delivered to him, obtain from them another full set, one of each kind, of the official ballots; but not more than four sets, in all, of official ballots shall be delivered to any voter. A voter may, after receiving one set of official ballots and before voting, return all such ballots to the ballot clerks and then pass outside the guard-rail; and afterward, while the polls are open, enter once again within the guard-rail for the purpose of voting, and receive and prepare his ballots and vote, the same as if he had not once before been within the guard-rail and received his ballots therefor. But not more than two sets in all of official ballots, shall, on such account, be delivered to any voter, and no voter shall pass within the guard-rail, more than twice, at the same election, for the purpose of voting. R. S., 440, L. 1880, ch. 366, § 3. L. 1890, ch. 262, §§ 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. (For oath, see Form 15, post p. 476.) § 105. Manner of voting.- When the ballot a voter proposes to vote shall be prepared, and it and all the others of the same set delivered to him shall be properly folded, he shall leave the voting booth with the ballots so folded, and keeping all his ballots so folded, shall proceed at once to the inspector in charge of the ballot box, and first hand to such inspector the ballot he intends to vote. Such inspector shall announce the name of the voter and the printed number on the stubs of the official ballots in the voter's possession. If such voter be entitled then and there to vote, and he shall not be challenged, or if challenged and the challenge be determined in his favor, and if his ballots are properly folded and have no mark or tear visible on the outside thereof, except the printed number on the stubs |