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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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No party em-
blem must
appear upon
certificate of
nomination
or ballot.
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the person or persons whose duty it may be, by party usage,
to declare the result of such election in the manner prescribed
for a nomination by a convention, but no party emblem or
device of any kind shall be added to said certificate; and if
any such emblem or device should be added it shall not be
printed upon the ballot by the Secretary of State or any of the
Board of Supervisors of Elections.
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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That Sections 49, 50, 51
and 52 of said Article 33, title "Elections," sub-title "Ballots
and Ballot Boxes," be and the same are hereby severally re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as fol-
lows :
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49. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions of each county and of the City of Baltimore to provide
ballots for every election for public officers held under this
Article in which any voters within the county or said city
shall participate, and cause to be printed on the ballot the
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Super vis ors
must have
nomitiation
certificates
six days be-
fore election.
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name of every candidate whose name has been certified to or
filed with the proper officers in the manner herein provided by
such political party, organization or body of individuals; but
the said Supervisors shall not be required to print any name
upon a ballot if such name shall not have been certified to
them at least six days before election day. Each ballot shall
contain a statement of every constitutional amendment or
other question to be submitted to the vote of the people at any
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Void ballots.
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election. Ballots other than those printed by the respective
Boards of Supervisors of Elections, according to the provisions
of this Article, shall not be cast or -counted in any election
except as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this Article con-
tained shall prevent any voter from writing on his ballot and
marking in the proper place the name of any person other
than those already printed for whom he may desire to vote for
any office, and such votes shall be counted the same as if the
name of such person had been printed upon the ballot and
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N o facsimile
ballot per-
mitted in
polling place
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marked by the voter. Any voter may take with him into the
polling place any written or printed memorandum or paper to
assist him in marking or preparing his ballot, except a fac-
simile of the ballot to be voted. Ballots shall be printed and
in possession of the Supervisors of Elections at least four days
before election day, and a correct list of the names of the can-
didates thereon, with the designation of the offices for which
the persons named thereon are candidates, shall be furnished
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