262 MARYLAND MANUAL.
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every
white* male** citizen of the United States, of the age of twen-
ty-one years, or upwards, who has been a resident of the State
for one year, and of the Legislative District of Baltimore 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 elections
hereafter to be held in this State; and in case any county or
city shall be so divided as to form portions of different elec-
toral districts, for the election of Representatives in Congress,
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
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-
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.
+SECTION 1A. The General Assembly of Maryland shall
have power to provide suitable enactment for voting by quali-
fied voters of the State of Maryland who are absent and en-
gaged in the military or naval service of the United States
at the time of any election from the ward or election district
in which they are entitled to vote, and for the manner in
which and the time and place at which such absent voters may
vote, and for the canvass and return of their votes.
SEC. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, con-
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,
* The word "white" became inoperative under the 15th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
**The word "male" became inoperative under the 19th Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
*Thus amended by Ch. 20, Acts of 3918, ratified by the people November
5, 1918.
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