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district or voting precinct in the several counties of the State,
opaque, official, gummed envelopes of uniform size and colors
corresponding to the official ballots of the respective political
parties participating in such primaries sufficiently large to
receive such official ballot when folded. On the back and out-
side of all such official envelopes shall be printed the words
"Official Envelope for Ballot", followed by the designation of
the polling place for which it is prepared, the date of the pri-
mary election, and a fac simile of the signature of the president
of the Board of Supervisors of Elections by whom the official
envelopes and ballots for said primary election have been pre-
pared. Said official envelope shall be provided with a detach-
able stub or coupon in the same manner as is now provided by
law for official ballots, and the number of such envelopes so
furnished shall be in number twenty-five per cent, more than
the estimated vote of the several political parties participating
in such primary in such election district or precinct, as the
case may be.

160H. The names of candidates for nomination for each
office or for each place or position aforesaid, respectively, shall
be arranged alphabetically upon the ballots according to the
surnames of the candidate. Ballots in all said primary elections
shall be cast, except as hereafter provided for primary elec-
tions in the several counties of the State, counted and can-
vassed and the result of the election announced and certified in
Baltimore City and in each of the counties of the State, as now
provided by said Article 33 for elections held thereunder; and
the said primary elections shall be held and conducted and
determined in the manner and form provided by this article
for general elections, and subject to all the regulations, require-
ments and provisions as prescribed by this article for general
elections, in so far as the same are or may be applicable to
said primary elections and except as may be herein provided.
And the provisions of the general election law, governing elec-
tion contests, are hereby expressly declared to be applicable to
such primary elections. Challengers and watchers representing
the candidates in any said primary elections shall be allowed
to be present at the several voting places during the voting and
counting of the ballots, as provided in said Article 33, with
respect to general elections held thereunder. As each voter's
name shall be entered in the poll book, kept by the two clerks
of election, there shall be entered opposite his name the name
of the party whose candidate or candidates he voted for; pro-
vided, that in primary elections to be held in the several
counties of the State the name or initials of the judge of elec-