Section 8-316. Ballots; mutilated or spoiled


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  • If a ballot is found to be
      defective or mutilated before it is delivered to the voter, its stub and
      the stubs of all other ballots in the set shall be detached  immediately
      and  placed  in  the  box  for  stubs, by the clerks, or if there are no
      clerks by the inspector assigned to the duty of delivering ballots,  and
      all the ballots of that set immediately shall be marked "cancelled", and
      placed  in the box for spoiled and mutilated ballots. If a voter returns
      a ballot as defective, mutilated, defaced, or wrongly marked,  he  shall
      also return all the other ballots of the set, if any, and such clerks or
      inspector  shall  likewise  remove their stubs, placing all the stubs in
      the box for stubs and all the ballots of the set in the box for  spoiled
      or  mutilated  ballots,  first  marking the ballots "cancelled". In each
      case, the voter shall receive another ballot or set of  ballots,  unless
      not entitled thereto.