Election proce-
dure: Absentee
voting.
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Sec. 1A. The General As-
sembly of Maryland shall
have power to provide by
suitable enactment for voting
by qualified voters of the
State of Maryland who are
absent at the time of any
election from the ward or
election district in which
they are entitled to vote and
for voting by other qualified
voters who are unable to vote
personally by reason of phys-
ical disability which shall
confine said voters to a hos-
pital or cause them to be
confined to bed, and for the
manner in which and the
time and place at which
such absent voters may vote,
and for the canvass and re-
turn of their votes.
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Sec. 2. ... The General
Assembly shall also provide
by law for taking the votes
of soldiers in the army of the
United States serving in the
field.
SOLDIERS' VOTE
Art. 12, sec. 11. Any qual-
ified voter of this State who
shall be absent from the
county or city of his resi-
dence by reason of being in
the military service of the
United States, so as not to
be able to vote at home, on
the adoption or rejection of
this Constitution, or for all
State officers elected on gen-
eral ticket, and for Presiden-
tial Electors and for mem-
bers of Congress, at the elec-
tion to be held on the Tues-
day next after the first Mon-
day in the month of Novem-
ber, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, shall be entitled
to vote at such elections as
follows: A poll shall be
opened in each Company of ,
every Maryland Regiment in
the service of the United
States or of this State on the
day appointed by this Con-
vention for taking the vote
of the new Constitution, or
some other day not more
than five days thereafter, at
the quarters of the com-
manding officer thereof, and
voters of this State belong-
ing to such Company who
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