At such election it shall be the duty of the chairman or one of the election judges to deliver ballots to the qualified electors. Any elector desiring to vote shall give his or her name to the chairman or other election judge who shall then, in an audible tone of voice, announce the same, whereupon a challenge may be interposed, and if the challenge be overruled, the chairman or other election judge shall give the elector a ballot, at the same time recording the number of such ballot. It shall be the duty of such judges of election to transcribe the name of the elector in the poll books, and against such name the number of the ballot delivered to the elector. [Code 1979 § 5.13.]