199. The votes shall be given by secret ballot.
Before giving a ballot paper to any person entitled to vote at his polling station, the deputy returning officer must put his initials upon the back thereof, and, upon the back of the counterfoil, the same number as that entered opposite the name of the elector in the poll book, in such a way that when the ballot paper is folded they shall remain visible.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 226.