CONSTITUTION. 23
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
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SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every |
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white* male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-
one years, or upwards, who has been a resident of the State
for one year, and of the Legislative District of Baltimore |
Elections by
ballot. |
city, or of the county, in which he may offer to vote, for six
months next preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote,
in the ward or election district in which he resides, at all elec-
tions hereafter to be held in this State; and in case any county
or city shall be so divided as to form portions of different
electoral districts, for the election of Representatives in Con-
gress, Senators, Delegates, or other Officers, then to entitle a
person to vote for such officer, he must have been a resident
of that part of the county, or city, which shall form a part of
the electoral district, in which he offers to vote, for six months |
Qualifications
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next preceding the election; but a person, who shall have ac-
quired a residence in such county or city, entitling him to
vote at any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the elec- |
Residence. |
tion district from which he removed) until he shall have ac-
quired a residence in the part of the county or city to which
he has removed.
Bevard vs. Hoffman, 18 Md., 479. Miles vs. Bradford, 22 Md., 171.
Shaeffer vs. Gilbert, 73 Md., 66. Southerland va. Norris, 74 Md., 326.
Kemp vs. Owens, 76 Md., 237. Langhammer vs. Munter, 80 Md., 518.
Hanna vs. Young, 84 Md., 179. Howard vs. Skinner, 87 Md., 558. David-
son vs. Brice, 91 Md., 688.
SEC. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, con- |
Removal. |
victed of larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned
by the Governor, shall ever thereafter, be entitled to vote at
any election in this State; and no person under guardianship,
as a lunatic, or as a person non compos mentis, shall be en-
titled to vote.
State vs. Bixler, 62 Md., 354.
*The word "white" became Inoperative under the 15th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States. |
Disqualifications.
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