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a day to be fixed by an agreement between the governing bodies of said
parties for the State not earlier than the eighth day of September not
later than the fifteenth day of September of and in each and every
year, except in those years in which there shall be an election of a
President and Vice-President of the United States, in which said
presidential years the said primaries, including primaries for nomi-
nating candidates for Congress, delegates from the several counties
and legislative districts of Baltimore City to the State Convention,
and all candidates to be elected at the presidential elections, other than
delegates to National Conventions and presidential electors (which
said delegates and electors shall be chosen by the State Convention as
aforesaid), shall be held on the first Monday in May. All such polit-
ical parties as aforesaid, shall hold their several primaries on the same
day. In case such governing bodies for the State fail to agree on a
date within the period fixed aforesaid, that is to say, not earlier than
the eighth nor later than the fifteenth day of September of each and
every year, except the presidential years, said primary election shall
be held on the second Monday of September in any year. Notices shall
be given of the times and places of holding said primary elections by
the several Boards of Supervisors of Elections, in the City of Balti-
more and of the counties of this State, respectively, in the same way
precisely as notice is required to b© given for a municipal and county
election held under the provisions of Article 33 of the Code of Public
General Laws,

181.

See notes to sections 178 and 185.

1910, ch. 741, sec. 160B (p. 116). 1912, ch. 2. 1912, ch. 347. 1914, ch. 792.

182. As many different sets of official ballots shall be printed and
supplied by the Board of Supervisors of Elections at each polling place,
and as many ballot-boxes shall be used at each polling place, as
there are separate party nominations, delegates, executives or man-
aging or executive bodies to be voted for; and to prevent voters belong-
ing to or acting with one political party from inadvertently or inten-
tionally casting their ballots for the candidate for nomination for office,
or election as delegate to any convention or as executive or member
of an executive or managing committee of any other party, and to
facilitate its being promptly detected if so cast, the ballots of the sev-
eral parties shall be printed upon opaque paper of different colors,
to be determined by the several Boards of Supervisors of Elections;
and until after the next general registration in the Counties every
person offering to vote at a primary election shall be required to state
to which party he belongs and which party's candidate he intends to
vote for at the State, City or County election, and every qualified
person offering to vote in the several Counties in the State at a pri-
mary election shall be permitted to vote in the primary election of that