Section 17-8-35

Numbering of ballots and placing seal thereon.

When a voter casts his ballot, it shall be numbered by the inspector receiving the ballot in the following manner: At the bottom of each ballot and at a point an equal distance from the sides thereof, there shall be printed a one inch square, and the number of the ballot shall be placed by the inspector inside this square and nowhere else upon the ballot. Immediately after the inspector places the number on the ballot in the square provided therefor, he shall forthwith and in the presence of the voter and before placing the ballot in the ballot box, place a seal over the square in such manner as to make it impossible to see the number placed therein without removing the seal, but in such manner as that the seal may be removed without obliterating the number placed in the square. The seals to be used for this purpose shall be black and shall be furnished as a part of the election supplies by the persons now authorized by law to furnish other election supplies, shall be two inches square, and around the outer edge thereof, one-fourth inch in width, there shall be a mucilaginous surface so that the seal may be securely placed over the square and may be later removed in the manner provided for herein without obliterating the number placed in the square. As many seals shall be furnished for each voting place as there are ballots furnished for that voting place.

(Acts 1939, No. 209, p. 361; Code 1940, T. 17, §180.)