§ 1226Duties of Election Officers After the Close of the Polls in Districts in Which Voting Machines are Used

(a) When the hour for closing the polls shall arrive,
all qualified electors who have already qualified and are inside
the enclosed space shall be permitted to vote; and in addition
thereto, all those qualified electors who are in the polling
place outside the enclosed space waiting to vote and all those
who are in line either inside or outside of the polling place
waiting to vote, shall be permitted by the election officers
to do so. As soon as the polls are closed, and the last voter
has voted, the election officers shall immediately lock and
seal the operating lever or mechanism of the machine, so that
the voting and counting mechanism will be prevented from
operation, and, they the clerk and the overseers, if any, shall
then sign a certificate stating--(1) that the machine has been
locked against voting and sealed; (2) the number, as shown on
the public counter; (3) the number on the seal which they have
placed upon the machine; (4) the number registered on the
protective counter or device; and (5) the number or other
designation of the voting machine, which certificate shall be
returned by the judge of election to the county board with the
other certificates, as herein provided. The election officers
shall then compare the number, as shown by the public counter
of the machine, with the number of names written in the numbered
lists of voters, the district register and voting check list,
which shall then be placed in separate packages, containers or
envelopes and sealed.
   (1226 amended May 5, 1986, P.L.150, No.47)