178. After receiving a ballot paper, the elector shall proceed into one of the compartments of the polling station, mark the ballot paper in one of the circles and then fold up the ballot paper; he shall leave the compartment and allow the initials of the deputy returning officer to be examined by that officer, by the poll clerk and by any candidate or his representative who wishes to do so; then the elector, in full view of those present, shall remove the counterfoil and remit it to the deputy returning officer, who shall destroy it. The elector himself shall then place the ballot in the ballot box.