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candidates for offices to be filled by voters of the entire State or of any division of a greater extent than one county. For all other nominations to public offices certificates of nomination shall be filed with the supervisors of election of the respective counties or of Baltimore city, as the case may be, wherein the offices are to be filled by the voters.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 40.

44. No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than one nominee for each office to be filled. No person shall join in nominating more than one nominee for each office to be filled and no person shall accept a nomination to more than one office.

Ibid. sec. 41.

45. The secretary of State and the several boards of supervisors of elections shall cause to be preserved in their respective offices for two years all certificates of nomination filed with them under the provisions of this article. All such certificates shall be opened to public inspection.

Ibid. sec. 42. 1900, ch. 366. 1902, ch. 133.

46. Except in cases provided for by section 50 and cases of special election to fill vacancies in office caused by death, resignation or otherwise, such certificates of nomination shall be filed respectively with the secretary of State not less than twenty-five days, and with the board of supervisors of elections. not less than fifteen days before the day of election.

Ibid. sec. 43.

47. Not less than eighteen days before an election to fill any 'public office, the secretary of State shall certify to the supervisors of elections of each county within which any of the voters may, by law, vote for candidates for snch office, the name and description of each person nominated for such office, as specified in the certificates of nomination filed with the secretary of State, and shall certify the same to the supervisors of elections of Baltimore city, if any of the voters of said city may by law vote for candidates for such office.

Ibid. sec. 44.

48. At least eight days before an election to fill any public office the supervisors of elections of each county and of the city of Baltimore shall cause to be published in two or more

newspapers within such county and in all the daily papers published in said city which will publish the same at the current rates for advertising, the nominations to office which have then been filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this article. If in any county there be but one newspaper published, publication in such one newspaper shall be sufficient. They shall make not less than two such publications in each of such newspapers before the day of election, and one of such publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last day upon which said newspaper is issued before the day of election. Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general news, and the two newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the political parties which at the last preceding election cast the largest and next largest number of votes. The list of nominations published by the supervisors of elections shall be arranged, as far as practicable, in the order and form in which they are to be printed upon the ballots.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 45.

49. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as in this article provided, shall at least ten days before election, in a writing signed by him and acknowledged before a justice of the peace, or if he be out of the State at the time, before a notary public, notify the officer with whom the certificate nominating him is, by this article, required to be filed, that he declines such nomination, such nomination shall be void, and the name of any person so declining shall not be printed upon the ballots.

Ibid, sec. 46.

50. Should any person so nominated die before election day or decline the nomination, as in this article provided, or should any certificate of nomination be or become insufficient or inoperative from any cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled in the manner required for original nominations. If the original nomination was made by a party convention which had delegated to a committee the power to fill vacancies, such committee may, upon the occurring of such vacancies, proceed to fill the same; the chairman and secretary of such committee shall thereupon make and file with the officer a certificate setting forth the cause of the proper vacancy, the name of the person nominated, the office for which he was nominated, the name of the person for whom

the new nominee is to be substituted, the fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies, and such further information as is required to be given in an original certificate of nomination. The certificate so made shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner prescribed for the original certificate of nomination, and shall, except in case of a nominee dying, be filed at least eight days before the day of election, and in cases of either resignation or death shall be filed within six days after the vacancy shall have occurred, and upon being so filed shall have the same force and effect as an original certificate of nomination. When such certificate shall be so filed with the secretary of State, he shall in certifying the nomination to the supervisors of elections insert the name of the person who has been thus nominated to fill a vacancy in place of that of the original nominee; and in case he has already sent forth his certificate he shall forthwith certify to the supervisors the name and description of the person so nominated to fill a vacancy, the office for which he is nominated, the party or political principle he represents, and the name of the person for whom he. is substituted. In the case, however, of any nominee dying within so short a time before the day of election that the certificate of nomination of the new nominee shall not have been filed with or certified to the supervisors of elections until after six days before the day of election, thus being too late for the name of the new nominee to be printed on the ballots in any county, or the city of Baltimore, as hereinafter provided, the board of supervisors of such county or city shall at once cause to be printed a sufficient number of stickers bearing the name of such substituted nominee, and shall deliver the same in due time to the judges of election for all of those precincts in said county or city wherein said nominee may be voted for, and said judges shall affix such stickers in the proper place on each ticket before it is given out to the voter. If the resignation or disqualification or death and consequent change of nominee shall have occurred and been made after the first publication provided for in section 48 and before the second publication, the board of supervisors shall, if possible, make the proper change in the second publication.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 47.

51. Whenever a proposed constitution or constitutional amendment or other question is submitted for popular approval to the voters of the State, the secretary of State shall duly,

and not less than thirty days before the election, certify the same to the supervisors of elections in the counties and the city of Baltimore, and thereupon the said supervisors shall include the same in the publication provided for in section 48 of this article. If questions of local concern are to be submitted for approval to the vote of the people of a county or a municipality the same shall be certified to said supervisors of elections within said period by the county commissioners or the register of the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, and shall be advertised as herein provided in the case of nominees for county or city offices.

Board of Supervisors v. Todd, 97 Md. 261.

Ballots and Ballot-Boxes.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 48.

52. All ballots cast in elections for public officers within this State shall be printed and distributed as hereinafter provided. The printing of ballots and cards of instruction for the voters in each county and the city of Baltimore, and the delivery of the same to the judges of election as provided in this article shall be at public expense, the payment of which shall be provided for by the several counties and the city of Baltimore, respectively. All ballot-boxes shall be constructed as follows: Each box shall be one foot outside measure, as near as may be, in width and length, and eighteen inches in depth, strapped and secured on each edge and corner with brass mouldings, securely brazed or soldered together at the junctions thereof, so as to prevent it from being easily broken; it shall have a strong wooden lid, which shall be fastened to the box with brass or iron hinges, not accessible from the outside, and shall have a good Yale lock, there shall be a slit in the lid just large enough to admit a single folded ballot at one time, and the sides and bottom of the box shall be of clear plate glass not less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Each such box, when not in actual use at a polling place, shall be kept in a wooden case for the protection of the same and its contents in the transportation and storage thereof.

Ibid. sec. 49. 1901, ch. 2.

53. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of elections of each county and of the city of Baltimore to provide ballots for every election for public officers held under this article in which any voters within the county or said city shall participate, and cause to be printed on the ballot the name of

every candidate whose name has been certified to or filed with the proper officers in the manner herein provided by such political party organization or body of individuals; but the said supervisors shall not be required to print any name upon a ballot if such name shall not have been certified to them at least six days before election day. Each ballot shall contain a statement of every constitutional amendment or other question to be submitted to the vote of the people at any election. Ballots other than those printed by the respective boards of supervisors of elections, according to the provisions of this article, shall not be cast or counted in any election except as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this article contained shall prevent any voter from writing on his ballot and marking in the proper place the name of any person other than those already printed for whom he may desire to vote for any office, and such votes shall be counted the same as if the name of such person had been printed upon the ballot and marked by the voter. Any voter may take with him into the polling place any written or printed memorandum or paper to assist him in marking or preparing his ballot, except a fac-simile of the ballot to be voted. Ballots shall be printed and in possession of the supervisors of elections at least four days before election day, and a correct list of the names of the candidates thereon with the designation of the offices for which the persons named thereon are candidates shall be furnished on demand by the supervisors to the candidates or their authorized agents. If any mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of said supervisors to correct the same without delay, and if said. supervisors shall decline or refuse to make correction, then upon the sworn petition of any qualified voter who would have the right to vote for such candidate at the approaching election, the circuit court for any county, or one of the judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city may, by order, require said supervisors of elections to correct such error or to show cause why such error should not be corrected.

Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 443. Duvall v. Miller, 94 Md. 709. Coulehan v. White, 95 Md. 714.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 50. 1901, ch. 2. 1902, ch. 133. 1904, ch. 339. 54. The form and arrangement of the ballots shall be as follows: All ballots shall contain the name of every candidate whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot has been certified to and filed according to the provisions of this article

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