(A) Commencement of counting. When the time to begin counting the votes arrives, the County Board shall take charge of the first ballot box as heretofore provided, and shall proceed to ascertain the result of the election in the manner hereinafter specified, and shall not adjourn nor delay until the votes are all counted, the result ascertained, the memorandum made and copies thereof delivered and posted as hereinafter required.
(Prior Code, § 1-819)
(B) Counting procedures.
(1) When the Counting Board has retired to the place provided for the counting of the votes, the ballot box shall be opened and one of the Counting Commissioners, taking therefrom one ballot at a time in the presence of the other officers, shall read therefrom the designation of the office to be filled and the names of the persons voted for to fill each office and hand the ballot to the other Counting Commissioner, who, if satisfied that it was correctly read, shall deposit it in the locked ballot box provided for this purpose. The contents of the ballots, as they are read, shall be entered by the counting clerks separately, under the supervision of the Counting Commissioners, on tally papers for that purpose by suitable marks in ink opposite to or under the name of each person voted for.
(2) If two or more ballots be found folded or rolled together and the names thereon be the same, one of them only shall be counted, but if the names thereon be different in any particular, neither of them shall be counted, except if it be manifest what was intended by the voter, and in either case, the Commissioners shall, in writing in ink, place a common number on said ballots and state thereon that they were folded or rolled together when voted.
(Prior Code, § 1-820)