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in addition, a duplicate copy shall be filed with the [Secretary
of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws if there are
members or contributors residing in more than one county, in
Baltimore City and another county or in another state.

26-18.

(d) In case such petition relates to the election of electors of
President and Vice-President of the United States, a Senator of the
United States, a Representative in Congress, or the Governor or
Attorney General, or a Senator or Delegate to the General Assembly
of Maryland, or a judge, or a clerk of a court of law, or a register of
wills, or a State's attorney, the trial judge or judges shall have no
power to declare any such election to be void. The judge shall file
his findings, or, in a case where a jury shall have been demanded,
the finding or verdict of such jury as to whether or not the successful
candidate, or his agent or agents acting for or on behalf of such
candidate, engaged in prohibited practices, with the [Secretary of
State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws, together with
the transcript of the evidence. The [Secretary of State] State Ad-
ministrative Board of Election Laws shall thereupon submit the
same to the Governor of Maryland, when the election is for electors
of President or Vice-President of the United States, or for Attorney
General of the State; or when the election is for a Representative
or Representatives in Congress, shall submit the same certified
under the seal of the State, to the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives; or when the election is for Senator of the United States,
shall submit the same, certified under the seal of the State, to the
President of the Senate of the United States; or when the election
is for a member of the State Senate, shall submit the same to the
President of the Senate of Maryland; or when the election is for
Governor or Delegate to the House of Delegates of the General
Assembly of Maryland, or a judge, or a clerk of a court of law, or a
register of wills, to the Speaker of the House of Delegates of Mary-
land; or when the election is for a State's attorney, to the judges
having criminal jurisdiction of the county and city wherein he shall
be elected.

27-11.

The [Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of Election
Laws and the boards are hereby severally authorized and empowered
to do any and all acts, the carrying out of which is committed to them
by any act of Congress providing for voting by persons who are
absentee voters, and to accept and expend any funds made available
to him or them or to the State of Maryland by Congress for the pur-
pose of defraying the costs and expenses incurred in connection
therewith, including their services. The [Secretary of State]
State Administrative Board of Election Laws and the several boards
are hereby severally authorized and empowered to use any and all
facilities that may be furnished by the United States or any depart-
ment, commission or agency thereof, pursuant to any act of Congress
or otherwise, for the purpose of transmitting to and from absentee
voters applications for absentee ballots, envelopes, instructions and
all other printed matter that may be permitted to be transmitted
by any act of Congress and generally to cooperate in every way
with military and civil officers of the United States and with all