The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-03
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

Elections, tbs Board of Police Commits
sioners, or any person employed by them
respectively, in the discharge Of the du-
ties required Of them by this section, or
said Judges, or any person employed by
them to perform the duties imposed upon
them respectively by this section, they
shall respectively be subject to indct-
ment for a misdemeanor, and upon con
yiction thereof, Shall be subject to the
penalties prescribed by Section IS Of this
Article
81. At every election each qualified
voter shall be entitled to receive one Off
cial ballot. The person applying there
for to the Judge of election holding the
ballot shall give his name and residence,
and the said Judge shall repeat the same
in a loud and distinct voice, and if the
name be found upon the register by the
Judge having the custody thereof, they
shall repeat the said name and the voter
shall be allowed to enter the space en-
, closed by the guard-rai, and the Judge
holding the ballots, having first written IN
ink the voter 5 name and number upon
coupon attached to one of them, shall de
liver said ballot to the voter after having
likewise written in ink his own name or in
itials upon the back thereof, and the two
clerks of election shall at the same time
enter name of the voter upon theirpoll-
books. Upon receipt of his ballot the
voter shall forthwith, and without leav-
ing the enclosed space, retire alone to
one of the booths or compartments and
prepare 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 thereof, in the blank
space provided therefor, a cross-for eN-
examples, (N)--and in case of question
submitted to a vote of the people by
marking likewise in the appropriate space
a cross mark (N) against the answer
which he desires to give. Not more
than one voter shall be permitted to oc-
cupy any one booth or compartment at
one time, ahd no voter shall remain in or
occupy booth longer than may be ne
cessary to prepare his ballot, and in no
event longer than seven minutes in case
all such booths or compartments are in
use and other voters are waiting to oc-
Cupy the same. Before leaving the yo-
ting booth or compartment the voter
shall fold his ballot without displaying
the marks thereon, 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 sig
nature 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 forthwith hand his ballot to the
Judge at the ballot box, and shall give
his name and residence, and upon his
being identified as the person who re-
ceived said ballot, the Judge shall de
post his ballot in the box, having first
detached thercfrom its coupon, which he
shall then string upon a cord or wire to
be provided for the purpose, and the
said voter shall forthwith leave the en-
closed space. The judges having
charge of the registers shall then in the |
column therein headed "Noted" in same |
line with the name of the voter mark the |
word Voted or the letter "N." No !
ballot without the endorsement of the |
name or initials of the Judge thereon, as
hereinbefore provided shall be de |
posted in said ballot box, but if depos
tied shall be counted for the purpose of |
asCertaining the number thereof, and |
the Judges shall in ink mark on the back
thereof the the word Counted and !
indorse their names
o.. Assistance in marking their ballot
shall be given to voters who shall de-
clare, under oath to the Judges of election. (
that by reason of blindness or physical |
disability they are unable without assist !
ance to mark their ballot. Upon max
ing and filing with the Judges such I
affidavit the voter Shall retire TO one of /
SAID booths with the two clerks, and then /
and there one of said clerks, in the pres
encesof the other, shall mark the ballot as f.
such voters shall direct, the voter him |
self naming one by one the candidates +
Tor whom he desires his ballot to be
marked and not indicating the candi-
dates by general designation as the
candidates Of any one political party.
The ballots shall not be read to such
voter, nor shall any suggestion 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 prompting or suggestion from
them, or either of them shall direct; but
no ballot shall be marked under this
section until a majority of the Judges of
election shall be satisfied of the truth of
the fact stated in such affidavit. Voters
who are not disabled by blindness or
physicalinjury from marking their ballots
shall not be entitled to receive assistance
in marking them. And with the excep-
ton in favor of persons blind orincapable
from physical injury of marking their