16 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 2]

tion shall be placed upon the official envelope, and the stub or
coupon provided for herein for such official envelope shall be
filled out and handled in every respect similar to the coupon
provided for official ballots at general elections for the State;
and it shall not be lawful for the judges or clerks of election to
place their names or initials, or any other matter, upon the
official ballots; and it shall be lawful for every person having
the qualifications of a voter for such primary elections under
this article in the several counties of the State to have his
official ballot prepared before entering the proper polling place,
but upon presenting himself to the judges of elections as pro-
vided by this article, and it having been determined by such
judges that he is qualified to vote in such primaries, there shall
be given him by the proper election official a blank official ballot
of the political party in whose primaries he is entitled to vote,
together with an unsealed official envelope for the same party
as provided herein; but in the counties no ballot shall be handed
or delivered to any voter within one hundred feet of the election
booth, or within the booth itself, such act hereby being defined
to be electioneering, except the unmarked ballot herein required
to be handed to him by the election official; he, the voter, shall
thereupon retire to one of the booths provided for the purpose,
taking with him said blank ballot, and shall there, with black
pencil and in the manner required by law, prepare such official
ballot for voting, or in the privacy of such booth he may
exchange such ballot for the official ballot or one of the official
ballots which he may have brought into such polling place with
him previously prepared for voting, and while in such booth
he shall place the official ballot he desires to vote in the official
envelope so provided, and seal the same; he shall then hand to
one of the judges of election the envelope so sealed containing
the official ballot he desires to cast, and the judge of election so
receiving such envelope and ballot shall, after detaching the
coupon attached thereto, deposit such envelope so sealed in the
ballot box of the voter's political party in the presence of the
voter and of the other judges of election; in such primary elec-
tions held in the several counties of the State, upon the opening
of the ballot boxes by the judges, they shall count and announce
the whole number of envelopes, representing the whole number
of ballots, in the ballot boxes for the several parties in similar
manner to that provided by this article for official ballots at
general elections, and, in counting the ballots, the judges
shall carefully examine the ballots and the envelopes con-
taining the same, and if any envelope shall be found not of
the character required by this article, or if any mark or device