104.29  Inspectors refusing to allow watchers while ballots are counted.--The inspectors or other election officials shall, at all times while the ballots are being counted, allow as many as three persons near to them to see whether the ballots are being correctly read and called and the votes correctly tallied, and any official who denies this privilege or interferes therewith is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.