ART. 33] PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 573

as affiliated. It shall be the duty of the Board of Registry to explain
to each voter that the statement of such party affiliation does not bind
him to vote for the candidate of such party at any given election;
also that he has the right to decline to state any party affiliations;
but that no one who is not recorded upon the registry as affiliated with
a particular political party will be qualified to vote at subsequent pri-
mary elections of said political party. Whenever a voter declines to
state his party affiliations, the word "Declined" shall be written oppo-
site his name in such column so that there shall be written in such
column opposite the name of every registered voter, either his party
affiliation or the word "Declined." Each and every voter as he appears
at the first primary election at which he votes subsequent to the passage
of this Act shall, before he is permitted to vote at said primary,
state to which party he is inclined and to which party he desires to
have himself recorded as affiliated, and the Board of Registers, then
sitting as judges of election, shall thereupon and at once enter in the
column provided for party affiliations the name of the political party
to which the voter is inclined and with which he desires to affiliate,
and in said primary and all primary elections thereafter held, any
person so registered as affiliated with a given political party shall have
the right to vote the official ballot of that party and of no other.

All persons arriving at the age of twenty-one years, after the clos-
ing of the next preceding registration, or who shall attain the age
of twenty-one years before the general election for which the primary
election is held, entitled to be registered as qualified voters, shall be
entitled to vote upon proving, under oath, to the satisfaction of a
majority of the Judges of Election, their right to registration in the
precinct in which they claim the right to vote, provided they shall
declare their intentions to vote for the candidate or candidates of the
party at whose primary they tender their ballots.

No person or voter after having had his affiliation registered shall
be permitted to make any change in his party affiliation unless the
same shall be made at least six months prior to the day of the primary
election.

1914, ch. 774.

182A. As many different sets of official ballots shall be printed
and supplied by the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Dorchester
County at each polling place, and as many ballot boxes shall be used
at each polling place as there are separate party nominations, dele-
gates, executives or managing or executive bodies to be voted for; and
to prevent voters belonging to or acting with one political party from
inadvertently or intentionally 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 several parties shall be printed upon opaque