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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

during the voting and counting of the ballots, as provided in

said Article 33. As many different sets of official ballots

shall be printed and supplied at each polling place, and as many

ballot boxes shall be used at each polling place as there are sep-

arate party nominations to be voted for, and to prevent voters

belonging to or acting with one political party from inad-

vertently or intentionally casting their ballot for the candidates

for nomination or election as delegates to any nominating con-

vention of any other party, the ballots of the several parties

shall be printed upon paper of different colors, and until after

the next general registration, every person offering to vote,

shall be required to state to which party he belongs, and which

party's candidate he intends to vote for at the State, city or

county election, and he shall be supplied only with the official

ballot prepared for the candidates of such party, excepting as

Party affilia-

hereinafter provided for Baltimore City. As each voter's name

tion.

shall be entered in the poll books kept by the two clerks of

election, there shall be entered opposite his name the name of

the party whose candidates he votes for. The provisions, all

and singular, of Sections 33 to 109 of this Article, both inclu-

sive, and the offenses defined and the penalties and punishments

prescribed therefor in said sections, shall be fully applicable

in all respects to the same persons, matters, acts and omissions

in connection with or pertaining to the primary election held

under this Article, sub-title ''Primary Elections," and said sec-

tions are hereby made applicable to all primary elections pro-

vided for and held hereunder, and any judge, clerk or other

officer of any primary election, or any voter or other person

who would be deemed guilty of any offense against the general

election law, or any provisions thereof, in a general election,

who is found guilty of the same offense in any primary elec-

tion, as herein provided for shall be deemed guilty of the same

crime of which his offense is made to consist by and under the

general election law, and particularly under the abovemen-

tioned section thereof, and shall be liable to the same punish-

Penalties and
punishments

ment or penalty as is prescribed for such offense by the gen-

for violation
of law.

eral election law or by any of said sections thereof; provided,

that none of the provisions of this Act relating to the holding

and conduct of primary elections, shall be applicable to primary

elections tor the nomination of Congressional candidates in

Congressional districts, which are now or shall be composed

partly of counties and partly of portions of Baltimore City;

nor is the selection of delegates to the National Nominating

Convention of any political party subject to the provisions

hereof, nor is the selection of delegates to State, legislative or

Congressional district conventions called for the purpose of