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Maryland Manual, 1969-70
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576 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. I
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
1 SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballot; and every
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 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 re-
moved, until he shall have acquired 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 by suitable enactment for voting by
qualified voters of the State of Maryland who are absent
at the time of any election from the ward or election
district in which they are entitled to vote and for voting
by other qualified voters who are unable to vote personally
by reason of physical disability which shall confine said
voters to a hospital or cause them to be confined to bed, 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,
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
guardianship, as a lunatic, or, as a person now compos men-
tis, shall be entitled to vote.
"1 Thus» amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
' Thus amended by Chapter 100, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.

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