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ART. 33] SENATORIAL PRIMARIES. 951
polling places in Baltimore city to be published in said Baltimore city
newspapers and the polling places for each county to be published in the
newspaper of county aforesaid; and in each of said publications the
date of said senatorial primary election and the hours during which
the polls shall be open shall also be published.
1908, ch. 400, sec. 4.
205. The state central committee of each of said political parties
aforesaid in each county shall appoint the judges and clerks as aforesaid
to conduct said primary elections for each of said political parties, and
the names and addresses of the judges and clerks so appointed shall
be certified to the chairman of the state central committee of the whole
State for the political party for which said judges and clerks may be
appointed on or before the 15th day of October of the year in which
such senatorial primaries may be held, and they shall supply to each
polling place of their respective parties a ballot box, and said state
central committee of each of said parties for each of said legislative
districts and each of said counties shall send at least one list of the
registered voters in each precinct of said legislative district of Baltimore
city and in each election precinct or district of each of said counties,
which list shall be used by the judges and clerks at such primary
elections in the same way as the books of registry are now used at the
municipal and county elections for the purpose of ascertaining who is
entitled to vote at the said primary elections of said respective parties
and of indicating thereon the person who shall have voted therein. Upon
each registration list furnished to the judges and clerks, as aforesaid,
they shall mark the letter "V" at the side of the name of each voter
as he has voted, and before they commence to count the vote in the
ballot box there shall be a comparison between the registration list and
the tally clerk's list to see that they agree and they shall be made to
agree, if possible, before the ballot boxes are opened. None but regis-
tered voters who shall declare that they have voted the ticket of the
party in whose senatorial primary election they shall apply to vote,
at the general election held on the same day as said senatorial primary
election, shall be permitted to vote in said primary election. Chal-
lengers and watchers shall be allowed to be present while the votes
are being received and counted, as provided in this article; each candi-
date shall be allowed to name one watcher at each polling place of his
party.
1908, ch. 400, sec. 5.
206. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the state central com-
mittee for the whole State of each of said political parties to cause
to be printed a sufficient number of ballots of the party to which he
may belong for each polling place of his party in each precinct and
election district, which ballots shall contain the names of all candidates
of said respective parties, the surname of the candidate determining
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