The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-10
[CHAPTER 347.1

oLhSllulhSulS D6CllOu IOuE OIL ATIlCle
80 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland title Elections"
subtitle Primary Elections" as
said Section was enacted by Chap
ter OF the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1912, relating to the
subject Primary Elections" includ-
ing the provision for furnishing
new registry books and TRANSCRIPT
ing the names of qualified voters
residing in the several counties of
the State from the registry books
in use to the new registry books,
and providing for the payment of
the cost thereof by the County
Commissioners of the several coun-
ties of the State.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
tion 160E Of Article 80 of the Code
OF Public General Laws of Maryland,
title Elections" subtitle Primary
Elections" as said Section was en-
acted by Chapter of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1912, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to
read as follows:
160E. AS many different sets of
official ballots shall be printed and
supplied by the Board of Supervisors
of Elections at each polling place
and as many ballot boxes shall be
used at each polling place, as there
are separate party nominations, dele
gates, executives or managing or
executive bodies to be voted for; and
to prevent voters belonging to or act
ing with one political party from in
advertently or Intentionally casting
their ballots for the candidate for
nomination for office, or election as
delegate to any convention or as
| executive or member of an executive
or managing committee of any other
party, and to facilitate its being
promptly detected if so cast, the bal
lots of the several parties shall be
printed upon Opaque paper of different
colors, to be determined by the several
Boards of Supervisors of Elections;
and until after the next general reg
istration in the counties every person
| Offering to vote at a primary election
shall be required to state to which
party he belongs and which party's
candidate he intends to vote for at
H.,
every qualified person Offering to vote
in the several counties in the State
at primary election shall be permit
ted to vote in the primary election of
that party to which he belongs and
| which party candidates he intends to
vote for at the State or county cleo
ton and in Baltimore City and in
the counties. After the next general
registration in the counties, every
qualified person offering to vote at
primary election shall be permitted
to vote in the primary election of
that party only with which he shall
appear upon the books of registration
to be affiliated. The respective Boards
of Supervisors of Elections in the
several counties are hereby author
lied and required, Immediately upon
the passage of this Act, to have pre-
pared new books of registry for use
in all of the districts or precincts of
the said several counties for the tran
scribing of the names of the qualified
voters residing therein from the reg
istration books in use. The said tran
scribing shall be done in the offices
of the Boards of Supervisors of Elec-
lions by four (4) clerks to be selected,
two by the Supervisors representing
the majority party and two by the
Supervisors representing the minority
party as the said parties are now con-
stitued in this State, except Baltimore
county, where said transcribing shall
be done in the office of the Board of
Supervisors of Election by twelve (12)
clerks, to be selected, six by the SUI
pervisors representing the majority
party and six by the Supervisor rep
resenting the minority party, as the
said parties ~are now constituted in
this State. The transcribing shall be
done by the said clerks and the new
books, after being transcribed, shall
correspond in all respects, and if they
do not correspond at the conclusion
of the work, or if any error in tran
scribing be alleged to exist, either or
any of said clerks or any citizen or
voter in any one of said counties may
file petition in the Circuit Court
within ten days after said work is
finished, naming said clerks and the
Board of Supervisors of Elections as
defendants, and the said Court shall
have the power to make such order
for the correction of said books as
may be proper. The cost of such
preparation Of proper registry books !
shall be paid by the County Commits |
sioners of the county in which such
subdivision shall be made, upon proper
acquisitions and vouchers presented
by the Boards of Supervisors of Elec- |
tions. Any political party that polled |
more than one per cent of the votes !
cast at the last election may, through |
its political committee, if 1t has one, !
or by citizens representing said party, |
if there be no political committee,
name watcher and substitute watch |
err who shall be permitted to attend |
at the transcribing of said names and |
have power to examine the said books |
during the sitting Of said clerks for |
the said work and for a period of |
five days thereafter in the presence of |
said Board of Supervisors. In the |
books of registry so provided for to |
be used in transcribing said registered
voters in each and every county of
the State subsequent to the passage
of this Act, there shall be provided
a distinct column headed PARTY Affili-
ations," and the Board of Registers
shall enter in this column the name of
the political party, if any, to which
the voter is inclined and with which
the voter desires to have himself re-
corded as affiliated. 1t shall be the