ART. 33] PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 575

with which the voter desires to have himself recorded as affiliated. It
shall be the duty of the Board of Eegistry 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 primary elections
of said political party. Whenever a voter declines to state his party
affiliations the word "Declined" shall be written opposite 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 April 13, 1914,
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.

There shall be annually a sitting of the registration officers in and
throughout Dorchester County on the day which shall be the fifth day
before the day of the primary election, excluding the day of the pri-
mary election in the computation of said fifth day prior thereto, on
which day all of said registration officers shall sit from 8 o'clock A. M.
until 8 o'clock P. M. in Dorchester County for the purpose of revising
the registration lists by adding new voters, making transfers, etc., so
that fair and full opportunity may be afforded to all voters, duly quali-
fied, to take part in the primary elections. 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.

1908, ch. 737, sees. 160 E & G. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160F (p. 117).
1912, ch. 2, sec. 160F.

183. The books of registry shall be furnished to the judges at each
polling place by the respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections, and
shall be used at such elections in the same way as they are now used
at municipal, county, judicial, congressional, or general elections held
under the provisions of said Article 33. In the books of registry now
in use, or which may be hereafter prepared for use in Baltimore City,
or which may be prepared for use in the several counties a column
headed "Voted at Primary Election," shall be used; in each column
such word "Voted" or letter "V" shall be hereafter entered at the pri-