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Maryland Manual, 1971-72
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626 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. I
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
1 SECTION 1. All elections shall be by ballots; 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 six
months, and of the Legislative District of Baltimore city, or
of the county, in which lie may offer to vote, as of the time
for the closing of registration 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 removed, until he shall have acquired
a residence in the part of the county, or city, to which he
has removed. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
section, for purposes of voting for president and vice-
president of the United States or for electors for those
offices, the General Assembly may prescribe by law a lesser
residence requirement for citizens who have resided in this
state for less than six months.
' 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,
'Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
' This amended by Chapter 100. Act» of 1956, ratified November 6. 1956.

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