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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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certain time; providing that the Democratic State
Central Committee shall meet at a certain time for
certain purposes: permitting the adjacent placement
on the ballot of names of certain candidates under
certain circumstances; changing the method by which
ex officio delegates to the convention are selected;
and providing that certain election code provisions
do not apply to any delegates to [[the]] a
Democratic national party convention.
BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,
Article 33 — Election Code
Section 12—1(a) and (b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 12-1 (a) and (b) of Article 33 -
Election Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:
Article 33 — Election Code
12-1.
(a) The total number of delegates and alternate
delegates to represent the respective political parties
at their respective national conventions shall be
ascertained and determined by the governing body of each
party and certified to the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws not later than the first day of March in
each year in which national conventions for the
nomination of President and Vice—President are held. The
selection of delegates shall be as follows:
(1) Election of District Delegates. [Of the
number of delegates allotted to Maryland, with the
exception of those provided for in paragraph (3) of this
subsection, there shall be elected from each
congressional district an equal number of district
delegates from the list of candidates certified to the
boards by the State Administrative Board of Election
Laws. In ascertaining the number of delegates to be
elected from each congressional district, the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws shall determine the
highest whole number that can be multiplied by the
current number of congressional districts in Maryland to
obtain a product closest to but not greater than 100% of
the delegates allotted to Maryland by the respective
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