Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-05-20
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS FOR YEAR 1910.
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1910.

'iph oLlOldlS DIS ueIeln provided lOf
Baltimore city primary elections The
said Boards of Supervisors of Elec-
IONS Tor the several counties
and distribute, five days before
such primary election, to any candi-
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
the back and outside of all of such
official envelopes shall be printed the
words, Official Envelope for Ballot"
followed by the designation of the
polling place for which il is prepared,
the date Of the primary election, and
FAC smile of the signature of the
President of the Board of Supervisors
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
nished shall be In number twenty-five
per cent more than the estimated vote
of the several political parties partici-
pating in such primary in such cleo
tion district or precinct, as the case
may be.
160H-The names of candidates for
nomination Tor each Office or for each
place or position aforesaid, respect
iVely, 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
counties OF the State, counted and
canvassed and the result of the cleo
ton announced and certified in Balti-
more city and In each of the counties
OF the state, as now provided by said
Article 80 Tor elections held thereun-
DER and the said primary elections
shall be held and conducted and de-
termlned in the manner and form pro-
vided by this Article for general cleo
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.
i.% places during the voting and
counting oil the ballots, as provided In
said Article 80, 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 OPP
posite his name the name OF the party
whose candidate or candidates he
voted for; provided, that In primary
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 nlled out and handled in every
respect similar to the coupon provided
Tor official ballots at general elections
for the State, and 1t shall not be law
Jul for the judges or clerks OF cleo
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
OF voter for such primary elections
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
tons as provided by this Article and
i having been determined by such
judges that he Is qualified to vote in
such primaries, there shall be given
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 I'M
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
places with him. previously prepared
for voting and while in such booth he
shall place the official ballot he de-
sires to vote in the official envelope
80 provided, and seal the same; he
shall then hand TO one Of the judges
OF election the envelope so sealed
containing the official ballot he de-
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
held In the several counties Of the
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 mum
Der 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 I
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-
Guired by this Article, or II any mark 1
or device be found on any envelope or
peculiar folding by which, IN the opin- (
ion Of the majority Of the Judges, the /
same may be identified so as to indi- I
cate who may have cast the same the /
ballot 50 marked, or the ballot con /
tanned 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