The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-03


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A. ACT eammanA Chapter 81 81 TIE Acts q isz.
nmfsfAeA ~Am Ae& &o amend the cuae o. Public
Ksaeml Lmwa Artaele ]. alsie 'fialtlmore County, !,
- kead a Prlnaary Electlens"
1850 Il ~ 4 enacted ~ the General Assem-
~ Fl Mary ylsna Iaat sse.son -. = =
GeF III of sac Aets 0f fsaG. i hereby repealed ana
re-emmcaea 81 - a. read ~ follows
& 80 - - 49, ~ n.y. mselna hsd n baltimore eoun-
~. ~ any political party for the election ot one
o. more candidates for public ONCE. 20 De voted
for ~ the people OF said county, or Tor electlng
DELEGATES u any convention Of such party. any
person who BY force, threat, intimidation, orlDe-
~ or reward. or promise OF any article OF value.
shall induce. or endeavor 20 induce, any person
20 vote or abstain from voting for any delegate
or candidate af said election or meeting. or any
person who shall counsel or assist In, or direct
sseh Intimidation. bribery or reward, or offer Of
reward, shall be deemed guilty OF misdemean.
or and on conviction thereof shall be punished
by Imprisonment In jail for not more than sixty
dsys or by q fine of no. more than three hum
dred dollars, or both fine and imprisonment, in
'1s Sec. q And be it enacted, That the following
Sections be and the same are hereby added 10 Jne
said Chapter 26l of the Acts of 1882 as an integral
part thereof. 70 follow Immediately aIter Sec-
tion II OF said Chapter, and to be known as Sec
tions IL. ID, IA, l5. l6. II, 1s.
Sec. L. Every Judge at any primary. election
who shall wilfully exclude any vote duly ten
dered knowing that the person Offering the same
Is entitled to vote at such election. or shall viii
fully receive vote from any person WHO udS
been duly challenged in relation to his right to
vote at such election without exacting from such
person such oath or other proof tnat ne Is
legally registered voter in the precinct where
he applies to vote, and has not previously voted
at said election, or whom he knows or suspects
to be not entitled to VOTE ano Wno mas m nOs Oeed
show the ballot box to be empty prior 70 the
opening of the polls, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanOr and upon conviction thereof be
punished by imprisonment in Jail for not less
than one month or more than year, or by q fne
of not less than fifty dollars or more than three
hundred dollars, or both tine and imprisonment,
In the discretion of the Court.
Sec. Is. If any person upon the day OF any
primary election, or before the canvass OF VOTES
destroy any ballot box used or intended to be
used at such election, shall wilfully or fraud
ulently conceal, secrete or remove any such
boY from the custody of the Judges of Election
or any official in charge thereof. or shall alter
deface, injure or destroy or conceal any ballot
such election, which has not been counted and
canvassed, or any poll list used at such electlon
or any report, return or certincate OF any sucn
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and snail be
punished by Imprisonment in jail for not less
than one month or more than one year, or by
fine Of not less than one hundred or more than
four hundred, or by both fine and imprisonment,
in the discretion of the Court.
Sec. H. Any Judge or Clerk of any primary
election, or other officer or person who shall
make. sign, publish, or deliver any false tally or
return Of any primary election, or any false
primary election, knowing the same TO be false,
or who shall wilfully deface. destroy or conceal
any statement, tally or certificate or such elec-
tiOn entrusted to his care and custody, shall be
deemed guilty Of a misdeameanor, and upon
conviction shall be punished by imprisonment
in Jail for not less than two months or more
than two years, or by fine of not less than
four hundred dollars.
sec Is. Each ticket. or the majority of the
candidates whose names appear on such ticket,
or OF such candidates on said ticket who may be
present. may select Clerk of Election, who,
with the Challenger, shall be entitled to be
present in the polling room before the polls are
opened and until after the votes are cast and
counted. In case of contest not more than
bare majority of the Judges selected shall be
supporters OF any one canddat or ticket. Any
person excluding or attempting to exclude such
Challenger or Clerk from the polling room dur
ing the time above set forth shall be guilty OF
sec. i6. Any person who shall canvass or
electioneer within one hundred feet OF the
be guilty OF a mlsdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion shall be fined not less than one nor more
than one hundred dollars.
Sec. IT, There shall be polling place in every
precinct, and in no case shall any election be
held In any building, or in any part of a build
ing used as as saloon pool room; billiard foo
to vote in any precinct who is not a registered
voter therein. The ballot box shall be placed in
polling room. Not more than two voters shall
be admitted at any one time, and no other per-
sons except the Judges, Clerks and Chalengers
u
or more persons in their discretion, who desire
to challenge or object to any voter; such per-
SONS after such objection is decided shall i'm
mediatey retire. No person shall send or bring
any intoxicating liquors in any polling room at
any primary during the voting or counting OF
the ballots, under penalty OF fine or not less
than five or more than twenty-five oollars.
Elections OF the same political party IN the
several Districts shall be on the same day.
Sec. 49, Before the next general registration
of voters in Baltimore county it shall be the
duty of the Supervisors of Elections IN said
vided in Section Is of Article 3d. Code of Public
General Laws. except that in addition to the
columns provided in the form set forth in Sec
tion is of said Article, there shall be q column
headed PARTY Affiliation," which shall imme-
diately precede the column headed Remark" !"
registered at such general election, or at any
registration thereafter, IL shall be the duty of
the Board of Registry to ask such person with
which party he desires to affiliate, and they shall
at the same time explain to the voter that such
statement of party afHliation does not bind him
to vote for the candidates of any such party,
but that no person who is not recorded as afili-
ated with an existing political party shall be en-
titled to vote in the primaries of that party.
The voters party affiliation shall be written In
the proper column. and If In his discretion he
declines 10 state his affiliation, the word "de-
clines" shall be written opposite his name In the
proper column. Any registered voter upon
any day of registration or revision after the
next general registration shall have the right to
appear In person before the Board of Registry
aud require said Board to enter, alter or strike
out the name of the party with which he desires
TO affiliate.
Section g. And be it enacted, This Act take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April Sth, 1902.
Apl. 26.-3t.