The supervisors are to attend all registrations in their districts. challemge persons. personally inspect and copy the original registration books and papers. attend elections. and detect and expose the improper or wrongful manipulation of the lists. In the case of failure of local election officers to put the statutory oath to a challenged voter and to pass at once upon hisqualifications. then the supervisors are to apply the test and receive and deposit the vote. mnakinga list of all such challenges. They are also to personally inspect ballotboxes before elections. keep independent ballotlists. and inclose rejected votes (indorsed with the name of the voter) in envelopes. in addition to these duties the supervisors are required to make. in towns of twenty thousand people and upwards. a thorough housetohouse canvass before election. to inform voters upon inquiry where and in what box to deposit their ballots. and to scrutinize naturalizations. In canvassing the votes the State laws are to govern. except that all ballots are to be counted by tens. first by an inspector of election. and second by a supervisor tIe local election officers and the supervisor keeping separate tally sheets. wchare to be compared and the result publicly announced. Ballots deposited in the wrong box are to be counted.
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