Section 34
SEC. 34. Section four hundred and sixty-one of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 461. Official watchers of the candidates.—During the registrations, voting, and counting of the votes, and in general at all meetings or sessions of the board of inspectors, a number of persons representing the candidates opposing each other in the election and appointed in writing by said candidates, shall be allowed within the polling place, but not within the guard rail: Provided, That each candidate for the office of senator or representative or any provincial office or for municipal president shall be entitled to have a watcher in each polling place. Each candidate for councilor shall be entitled to appoint any of the appointees of the candidates above mentioned. "Such watchers shall be allowed to freely witness the proceedings and to read the ballots after they have been read by the inspectors, without touching them, to hear the proceedings of the board and to take notes of what they see and hear: Provided, That the watchers may then and there file their protest against any irregularity they may believe to have been committed by the board of inspectors, and the poll clerk shall note an abstract of such protests on his minutes; but they shall not touch the ballots nor converse with the inspectors nor with each other in such manner as to interrupt the proceedings. "Other persons than watchers and the officials authorized by law to remain in the polling place shall be excluded from the same."