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)SECTlON 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 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, as a
lunatic, or as a person non. compos mentis, shall be entitled to
vote.

* 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.

t Thus amended by Ch. 20, Act of 1918, ratified by the people November 6, 1918.