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
twenty-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 electoral 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
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
acquired a residence in such county or city. entitling him to
vote at any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the
election district from which he removed, until he shall have
acquired a residence in the part of the county or city to
which he has removed.

t SECTION 1A. The General Assembly of Maryland shall
have power to provide suitable enactment for voting by
qualified voters of the State of Maryland who are absent
and engaged 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 man-
ner 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,
convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless par-
doned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter, be entitled to
vote at any election in this State; and no person under

* 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.

i Thus amended by Ch. 20, Acts of 1918, ratified by the people November
5,1918.