876 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

such name shall not have been certified to them at least six days before
election day. Each ballot shall contain a statement of every constitu-
tional amendment or other question to be submitted to the vote of the
people at any election. Ballots other than those printed by the respec-
tive boards of supervisors of elections, according to the provisions of
this article, shall not be cast or counted in any election except as herein-
after provided. Nothing in this article contained 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
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 candidates thereon with the designation of the offices for
which the persons named thereon are candidates shall be furnished on
demand by the supervisors to the candidates or their authorized agents.
If any mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of said supervisors to
correct the same without delay, and if said supervisors shall decline or
refuse to make correction, then upon the sworn petition of any quali-
fied voter who would have the right to vote for such candidate at
the approaching election, the circuit court for any county, or one of
the judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city may, by order,
require said supervisors of elections to correct such error or to show
cause why such error should not be corrected.

When a candidate has been regularly nominated by certificate in due form
properly signed, the supervisors must place his name upon the official ballot.
They can not refuse to do so because certain of the signers of the certificate
afterwards attempt to withdraw their signatures. This section does not
authorize the withdrawal of names from a certificate of nomination. Requi-
sites of the petition for mandamus. Mandamus issued. Sterling v. Jones, 87
Md. 143. See also, Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 443.

Application for mandamus to compel the election supervisors to print the
petitioners' names upon official ballots as candidates of a party in Anne
Arundel County, refused. Local act of 1904, ch. 603. Revell v. Holladay, 102
Md. 93.

This section referred to in discussing the question of whether a bill pro-
posing an amendment to the constitution, contained distinct legislation requir-
ing the signature of the goveror. Warfield v. Vandiver, 101 Md. 130 (dissent-
ing opinion).

1904, art. 33, sec. 54. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 50. 1901, ch. 2. 1902, ch. 133.
1904, ch. 339. 1908, ch. 737.

55. The form and arrangement of the ballots shall be as follows
All ballots shall contain the name of every candidate whose nomination
for any office specified in the ballot has been certified to and filed accord-
ing to the provisions of this article, and not withdrawn in accordance
herewith. The names of candidates for every office shall, except in the
case of candidates for presidential electors, be arranged alphabetically
.according to their surname, under the designation of the office. Above