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I am now registered as_________________; or

(Party or Decline)

[I am not now registered and I will be 21 years old or older on_____

____________________________, or]

[(Date of Election)]

I am not now registered and I will be 18 years old or older [but less

than 21 years old] on_________________________, and

(Date of Election)

I wish to be registered as__________________________.

(Party or Decline)
I desire that the ballot be sent to me at the following address:

(sign name)

(Military rank or other status if any,
or the spouse of)

(Military Rank or other status)

Warning! The Absentee Voting Law provides that anyone who wil-
fully signs any false application or oath, or who wilfully does any
act contrary to the terms and provisions of the Absentee Voting Law
with intent to cast an illegal vote or to aid another in doing so, or
who wilfully violates any of the provisions of that law or who applies
for a ballot under any other name than his own, shall, upon convic-
tion, be subject to a fine of $1,000 or to imprisonment for not more
than two years, or to both, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public health and safety and having been passed by
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 21, 1972.

CHAPTER 11

(Senate Bill 360)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3-10 (a)
of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replace-
ment Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Election Code," sub-
title "Registration of Voters—How and by Whom Conducted," to
provide that the State Administrative Board of Election Laws
may appoint under certain circumstances boards of registry to
conduct voter registration, to provide that these appointed boards