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opposite, and all such cross-lines shall be of uniform size and
color on each ballot. If the candidate is named for the same
office on two or more certificates of nomination, his name shall
be printed on the ballot but once. The names of candidates
for the office of Electors of President and Vice-President of the
United States shall be arranged in groups, as presented in the
several certificates of nomination papers, and the several groups
shall be arranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames of
the candidates for President in the City of Baltimore and in
the several counties, respectively. If candidates for Presi-
dential Electors are nominated at large and for the several Con-
gressional districts, the names and places of the residence of the
candidates at large shall be put at the head of each group, and
the names of the other candidates, with their places of resi-
dence, including the numbers of the Congressional districts in
which they reside, shall follow in numerical order. The sur-
name of the candidates of each political party for the office of
President and Vice-President shall be placed above the group
of candidates for electors of such party. There shall be left
at the right of the surname of the candidates for President and
Vice-President so formed as to include both names and to the
right of the name of each elector a sufficient clear square in
which each voter may designate, by a cross (X), his choice for
electors. All candidates for office shall, as far as possible, be
placed in one column, but where the names to be printed upon
the ticket are over thirty-six, then another column shall be
added in which names shall be printed, and when two or more
columns are used the same number of names shall, as far as
possible, be printed in each column, and the initial letter of
the given or Christian names of the several candidates in each
column shall be printed directly beneath each other in a verti-
cal line. A constitutional amendment or any question to be
submitted to the popular vote shall be printed in the same
column with the names of the candidates. This section shall
apply to Worchester, Somerset, Talbot, Kent, Prince George's,
Charles, St. Mary's, Calvert and Anne Arundel counties.

57. All said ballots in all elections in and throughout the
State of Maryland, including all the counties thereof, and Balti-
more City, shall be printed in the same uniform type upon
plain white printing paper of ordinary book weight, in black
ink, and the names of all candidates shall be printed upon all
ballots which may be used in any and all elections in every
county of the State and in the City of Baltimore in the follow-
ing type, to wit, in clear, plain, bold and legible roman capitals,