89Immediately after the close of the poll, in the presence and full view of the poll clerk, candidates, scrutineers and electors representing recognized parties or independent candidates, or such of them as may be present, and of at least two electors if no candidates or scrutineers are present, the deputy returning officer shall, in the following order,
(a)
count the number of voters whose names appear in the poll book as having voted on the ordinary polling day and record that number in the statement of the poll,
(b)
count the spoiled ballot papers, if any, place them in the special envelope supplied for that purpose and indicate thereon the number of such spoiled ballot papers and seal it up,
(c)
count the unused ballot papers undetached from the books of ballot papers, place them with all the stubs of all used ballot papers in the special envelope supplied for that purpose and indicate thereon the number of such unused ballot papers,
(d)
check the number of ballot papers supplied by the returning officer against the number of spoiled ballot papers, if any, the number of unused ballot papers and the number of voters whose names appear in the poll book as having voted, in order to ascertain that all ballot papers are accounted for,
(e)
open the ballot box and empty its contents on a table,
(f)
supply tally sheets to the poll clerk and to not less than two scrutineers or electors present who may keep their own tally as each vote is called out by the deputy returning officer,
(g)
give to each person present full opportunity to examine each ballot before it is counted, and
(h)
count on a tally sheet the number of votes given to each candidate.