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Any presidential absentee ballots received by the registrar subsequent to the delivery of ballot
boxes to the election managers and prior to the time for the closing of the polls on election day
shall be retained by the registrar and shall be delivered, together with the applications of the
qualified absentee elector to an election official designated to receive them. The registrar shall
receive a receipt from the designated election official for all such ballots and applications
delivered. The designated election officials shall, upon the canvassing of the returns, count such
ballots as if delivered to the proper precincts and such ballots shall be considered valid for all
purposes as if they had been actually deposited in the proper precinct ballot boxes. The
appropriate election officials shall examine the affidavit of each envelope. If the officials are
satisfied that the affidavit is sufficient and that the absentee voter is otherwise qualified to vote,
an official shall announce the name of the voter and shall give any person present an opportunity
to challenge in like manner and for the same cause as the voter could have been challenged had
he presented himself personally in such precinct to vote. The ineligibility of the voter to vote by
absentee ballot shall be a ground for a challenge. The officials shall consider any absentee voter
challenged when a person has previously filed a written challenge of such voter's right to vote.
The election officials shall handle any such challenge in the same manner as other challenged
ballots are handled, and if the challenge is not affirmed, the officials shall then open the
envelope. The officials shall then open the envelope in such manner as not to destroy the
affidavit printed thereon and shall deposit the ballot marked "OFFICIAL ABSENTEE
BALLOT," in a ballot box reserved for absentee ballots. The commissioners shall endorse on
their pollbooks a proper notation to indicate that the absentee voter has voted in such election by
absentee ballot.