COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	municipal election. Ownership of an interest
	in property shall not be required as a condi-
	tion for holding any elective or appointive
	office of this State or of any unit of local
	government.
	Section 2.06. Disqualifications.	Sec. 2. No person above the age of
	The General Assembly may prescribe by	twenty-one years, convicted of larceny, or
	law disqualifications from voting in any elec-	other infamous crime, unless pardoned by
	tion by reason of mental incompetence or	the Governor, shall ever thereafter be en-
	conviction of serious crime, and shall provide	titled to vote at any election in this State;
	by law for the removal of these disqualifica-	and no person under guardianship, as a
	tions.	lunatic, or, as a person non compos mentis,
		shall be entitled to vote.
	Conduct of Elections
	Section 2.07. Conduct of Elections.	Sec. 1A. The General Assembly of Mary-
	The General Assembly by law shall define	land shall have power to provide by suitable
	residence, establish a uniform system of per-	enactment for voting by qualified voters of
	manent registration of voters, provide for	the State of Maryland who are absent at the
	the nomination of candidates, regulate the	time of any election from the ward or elec-
	time, place, and manner of elections, provide	tion district in which they are entitled to
	for the uniform administration of elections,	vote and for voting by other qualified voters
	provide for absentee voting, insure secrecy of	who are unable to vote personally by reason
	voting, and protect the integrity of the elec-	of physical disability which shall confine
	tion process. A municipal corporation may	said voters to a hospital or cause them to
	prescribe by law election dates and proce-	be confined to bed, and for the manner
	dures for the administration and regulation	in which and the time and place at which
	of its municipal elections, subject to any procedures and standards that the General Assembly may prescribe by law. The General	such absent voters may vote, and for the canvass and return of their votes.
	Assembly shall provide by law for the super-	Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or offer
	vision and uniform administration of laws	to give, directly or indirectly, any bribe,
	enacted by the General Assembly pursuant to	present, or reward, or any promise, or any
	this section.	security, for the payment, or the delivery
		of money, or any other thing, to induce any
		voter to refrain from casting his vote, or
		to prevent him in any way from voting, or
		to procure a vote for any candidate, or
		person proposed, or voted for, as the
		Elector of President and Vice-President of
		the United States, or Representative in
		Congress, or for any office of profit or
		trust, created by the Constitution or Laws
		of this State, or by the Ordinances, or
		Authority of the Mayor and City Council
		of Baltimore, the person giving, or offering
		to give, and the person receiving the same,
		and any person who gives or causes to be
		given, an illegal vote, knowing it to be such,
		at any election to be hereafter held in this
		State, shall, on conviction in a court of Law,
		in addition to the penalties now or hereafter
		to be imposed by law, be forever disqualified
		to hold any office of profit or trust, or to
		vote at any election thereafter. But the
		General Assembly may in its discretion

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