The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1910-05-20

PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS FOR YEAR 1910.
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1910.

said Boards of Supervisors of Elec-
tions for the several counties
shall at the same time print
and distribute, five days before
date ordering and paying the cost OF
the same, any number of such Off
clal ballots such candidates may de-
sire. Said Supervisors shall also
cause to be furnished and delivered
with such official ballots to the prop
er election officials in each election
district or voting precinct in the sew
eral counties OF the State, Opaque,
official gummed envelopes of uniform
size and of colors corresponding to the
official ballots OF the respective politi-
cal parties participating in such pri-
maries sufficiently large to receive
such official ballot when folded. On
official envelopes shall be printed the
words, Official Envelope for Ballot %
fouoWed by the designation of the
polling place for which it is prepared,
the date of the primary election, and a
fac simile of the signature of the
of Elections by whom the official en-
velopes and ballots for said primary
election have been prepared. Said
official envelope shall be provided
with a detachable stub or coupon in
the same manner as is now provided
by law for official ballots, and the
number of such envelopes so fur
per cent more than the estimated vote
of the several political parties partici-
pating in such primary in such elec-
ton district or precinct, as the case
may be.
16OH-The names of candidates for
nomination for each Office or for each
place or position aforesaid, respect
lively, shall be arranged alphabetically
upon the ballots according to the sur
names of the candidates. Ballots in
all said primary elections shall be
cast, except as hereinafter provided
for primary elections in the several
canvassed and the result OF the elec-
ton announced and certified in Balti-
more city and in each of the counties
of the State, as now provided by said
Article 33 for elections held thereun-
der, and the said primary elections
shall be held and conducted and de-
termined in the manner and form pro-
vided by this Article for general elec-
tions, and subject to all the regula-
tons, requirements and provisions as
prescribed by this Article for general
elections, in so far as the same are
or may be applicable to said primary
elections and except as may be herein
provided. Challengers and watchers
representing the candidates in any
said primary elections shall be al
lowed to be present at the several vot-
ing places during the voting and
counting OF the ballots, as provided in
said Article 33, with respect to gen
eral elections held hereunder. AS
each voters name shall be entered in
the poll book, kept by the two clerks
OF election, there shall be entered op-
posite his name the name of the party
whose candidate or candidates he
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elections to be held in the several
counties of the State the name or
initials of the judge of election shall
be placed upon the official envelope.
and the stub or coupon provided for
herein for such official envelope shall
be filled out and handled in every
respect similar to the coupon provided
for the State, and it shall not be law
tul for the judges or clerks of elec-
ton to place their names or initials, or
any other matter, upon the official
ballots; and it shall be lawful for
every person having the qualifications
under this Article in the several
counties of the State to have his Off
cial ballot prepared before entering
the proper polling place, but upon pre-
senting himself to the judges of cleo
tions as provided by this Article, and
it having been determined by such
judges that he is qualified to vote in
him by the proper election official a
blank official ballot of the political
party in whose primaries he is en-
titled to vote, together with an un-
sealed official envelope for the same
party, as provided for herein; he shall
thereupon retire to one OF the booths
provided for the purpose, and shall
there, with black pencil and in the
manner required by law, prepare such
official ballot for voting, or in the
privacy of such booth he may ex-
change such ballot for the official bal
lot or one of the official ballots which
he may have brought into such polling
for voting, and while in such booth he
shall place the official ballot he de-
sires to vote in the official envelope
so provided, and seal the same. he
shall then hand to one of the judges
of election the envelope SO sealed
sires to cast, and the Judge of election
so receiving such envelope and ballot
shall, after detaching the coupon at
tached thereto, deposit such envelope
so sealed in the ballot box of the
voters political party in the presence
of the voter and of the other judges
OF election; in such primary elections
State, upon the opening of the ballot
boxes by the judges, they shall count
and announce the whole number of en-
velopes, representing the whole num-
ber of ballots in the ballot boxes for
the several parties in similar manner
to that provided by this Article for
official ballots at general elections,
and, in counting the ballots, the
judges shall carefully examine the bal
lots and the envelopes containing the
same. and if any envelope shall be
found not of the character required
by this Article, or if any mark or de-
vice be found on any envelope, shall
be found not of the character re-
quired by this Article, or if any mark
or device be found on any envelope or
peculiar, folding by which, in the opin-
same may be identified so as to indi-
cate who may have cast the same, the
ballot, so marked, or the ballot con-
tained in the envelope so marked or
folded. or improperly substituted,
shall not be counted: and when more
than one ballot shall be found in an