Section 8-312. Voting; paper ballots, marking and casting

1. On receiving
  his ballot, the voter forthwith and without leaving the  inclosed  space
  shall retire alone, unless he be entitled to assistance in voting, to an
  unoccupied  voting booth and mark his ballot, using a pen having blue or
  black ink or a pencil having black lead. He shall  not  occupy  a  booth
  more  than five minutes if other voters are waiting to occupy it. If the
  voter wrongly marks, defaces or tears a  ballot  or  one  of  a  set  of
  ballots,  he  may  successively  obtain  others,  one set at a time, not
  exceeding three sets in all, upon returning to the inspectors or  clerks
  each set of ballots already received.
    2.  When the voter shall have prepared his ballot or ballots, he shall
  leave the booth with each ballot  folded  so  as  to  conceal  the  face
  thereof  but  to  show  the  indorsement  and  facsimile of the official
  signature on the back, and keeping the same so folded, shall proceed  at
  once  to the inspector in charge of the ballot box, and shall offer such
  ballot or ballots to such inspector.   If  the  ballot  or  ballots  are
  properly  folded,  and  have  no  mark  or  tear  visible on the outside
  thereof,  except  the  printed  number  on  the  stub  and  the  printed
  indorsement  on the back, and if such number is the same as that entered
  in the registration poll record, as the number on the stub or  stubs  of
  the  official  ballot  or  set  of  ballots  last delivered to him, such
  inspector shall receive such ballot or ballots, and after  removing  the
  stub or stubs therefrom in plain view of the voter, and without removing
  any other part of the ballot, and without unfolding the ballot or in any
  way  exposing  any  part of the face of the ballot below the stub, shall
  deposit each ballot in the proper ballot box for the reception of  voted
  ballots  of  the kind so received, and the stubs in the box for detached
  stubs.
    3. Upon voting, the voter forthwith shall pass outside the  guardrail,
  unless  he  is  a  person  authorized  to remain for other purposes than
  voting.
    4. When a person shall have received a paper ballot from any clerk, or
  inspector,  as  hereinbefore  provided,  he  shall  be  deemed  to  have
  commenced  the  act  of  voting,  and  if, after receiving such official
  ballot, he shall leave the space inclosed by the guard-rail  before  the
  deposit  of  his  ballot in the ballot box, as hereinbefore provided, he
  shall not be entitled to  pass  again  within  the  guard-rail  for  the
  purpose of voting, or to receive any further ballots.
    5.  No  ballot without the official indorsement shall be allowed to be
  deposited in the ballot box except for emergency ballots as provided for
  herein.  No person to whom any paper ballot  shall  be  delivered  shall
  leave  the  space  within  the  guard-rail  until  after  he  shall have
  delivered back all such ballots received by him either to the inspectors
  or to the clerks.