The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18

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ulars thereof. Said several Boards of
| Supervisors in the counties are here
by respectively authorized and direct
ed to make adequate provision for
| the performance of the duty imposed
on them by this section, and the
County Commissioners of the several
counties shall pay the expenses incur
red in the performance thereof.
Should said Boards of Supervisors
| fail or neglect to make the delivery
by the time prescribed by this section.
it shall be the duty of the judge, des-
ignated beforehand by the Supervis-
ors, to take charge of the ballot box,
as provided i'll section 20 of this Arti-
Gle, to Immediately send to the Sup
| ervisors therefor, and to obtain the
same as soon as practicable, in order
that the election may be duly held,
the cost hereby incurred to be paid
by the County Commissioners as a
part of the election expenses. For
| failure or neglect on the part of the
Supervisors of Elections, the Board
of Police Commissioners, or any per-
son employed by them respectively,
in the discharge of the duties reuuir-
ed of them by this section, or said
judges, or any person employed by
them to perform the duties imposed
upon them respectively. by this sec
ton, they shall respectively be sub
iect to Indictment for misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be
subject to the penalties prescribed by
Section SO, of this Article.
81. AT every election each qualified
voter shall be entitled to receive one
official ballot. The person applying
therefor to the judge of election hold
ing the ballots shall give his name
and place of residence, and the said
judge shall repeat the same in a loud
and distinct voice; and if such name
be found upon the register by the
judges having the custody thereof,
they shall repeat the said name, and
the voter shall be allowed to enter
the space enclosed by the guard-rail,
and the judge holding the ballots,
having first written in ink the voters
name and number upon the coupon
attached to one of them, shall deliver
said ballot to the voter after having
likewise written in ink his own name
or initials upon the back thereof. and
the two clerks of election shall at the
same time enter the name of the
voter upon their poll books. Upon
receipt of his ballot the voter shall
forthwith, and without leaving the
enclosed space, retire alone to one of
the booths or compartments and pre-
pare his ballot by marking with an
indelible pencil after the name of
every person or persons for whom he
intends to vote and to the right there
of, iii the blank space provided there
for -,
case of question submitted to vote
of the people by marking likewise in
appropriate space a cross-mark (X)
against the answer which he desires
to give. Not more than one voter
shall be permitted to occupy any one
booth or compartment at one time,
and no voter shall remain in or oc-
cupy booth longer than may be
necessary to prepare his ballot, and
in no event longer than seven minutes
in case all such booths or compart-
ments are in use, and other voters are
waiting to occupy the same. Before
leaving the voting booth or compart-
ment the voter shall fold his ballot
without displaying the marks there
on, and in the same way it was folded
when received by him. and he shall
keep the same so folded until he has
voted, and so that the signature or
initials of the judge from whom he
| received it, and the name and num-
Der written on the coupon thereof,
but nothing else thereon may be SEEN
He shall forwith hand his said ballot
to the Judge at the ballot-box, and
shall give his name and residence.
and upon his being Unidentified as the
person who received said ballot, the
| judge shall deposit his ballot in the
box, having first detached therefrom
its coupon, which he shall then string
upon cord or wire to be provided
for the purpose, and the said voter
shall forwith leave the enclosed space.
The judges having charge of the reg
listers shall then in the column therein
headed Voted" in the same line
with the name of the voter mark the
word Voted. or the letter "V." No
ballot without the Endorsement of
the name or initials of the Judge
thereon, as hereinbefore provided,
shall be deposited in said ballot-box,
but if deposited, shall be counted for
the purpose of ascertaining the num-
Der thereof, and the judges shall in
ink mark on the back thereof the
word Counted and indorse their
names.
60. Assistance in marking their bal
lots shall be given to voters who shall
declare, under oath, to the judges of
election that by reason of blindness
or physical disability they are unable
without assistance to mark their bal
lot. Upon making and filing with
the judges such affidavit the voter
shall retire to one of said booths with
the two clerks, and then and there
one of said clerks, in the presence of
the other, shall mark the ballot as
such voter shall direct, the voter him.
self naming one by one the candi-
dates for whom he desires his ballot
to be marked and not indicating the
candidates by a general designation
as the candidates of any one political
party. The ballots shall not be read
to such voter, nor shall any sugges-
ton of any kind be made by either of
said two clerks to show him as to
how his ballot is to be marked, but
the only assistance which it shall be
lawful for the clerks to give him is to
mark the ballot as he without prompt
ing or suggestion from them, or either
of them shall direct, but no ballot
shall be marked under this section
until majority of the judges of cleo
ton shall be satisfied of the truth of
the fact stated in such affidavits.
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