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266 ELECTIONS. [ART.XXXIII
word showing a failure to affiliate with any political party, and who
has not appeared before the board of registry as hereinbefore set forth
and affiliated with some political party prior to the primary election
shall not be permitted to vote at such primary election or any subse-
quent primary election until he has so affiliated with the party in whose
primary he desires to vote.
Construing this section in connection with section 182, where a voter is
entered "declined" he cannot he said to have "had his affiliation regis-
tered." Purpose of these sections. An unafflliated voter, so far as a pri-
mary election is concerned, is in practically the same situation as one who
is unregistered. The "supplemental" registration directed to be held by
the Baltimore city charter on the first and second Mondays of April pre-
ceding the municipal election in May, is an "intermediate registration"
within the meaning of this section; a registered voter who is entered
"declined" may have that entry cancelled and declare his affiliation at
such registration with the right to vote in subsequent primary elections.
Murphy v. Wachter, 126 Md. 564.
3908, ch. 737, sec. 160S. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160R (p. 129). 1916, ch. 160, sec. 195.
195. If any person upon the day of such primary election, or before
the canvass of the votes is completed, shall conceal or wilfully break or
destroy any ballot-box used or intended to be used at such primary elec-
tion, or shall wilfully or fraudulently conceal, secrete or remove any
such ballot-box or the book of registry or any of the ballots, stubs or
coupons or other paraphernalia provided for holding such primaries
from the custody of the judge or judges of primary election or other
proper person in charge thereof, or shall alter, deface, injure or destroy
or conceal any ballot which has been deposited in any ballot-box at such
primary election which has not been counted and canvassed, or any
poll list or book of registry used at such primary election or any report,
return, certificate or any evidence in this sub-title required, or any per-
son who shall print or circulate as an official ballot one that is not
official and complete, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged
guilty of a felony and shall for each and every such offense be punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one or more than
five years.
1908, ch. 737, sec. 160V. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160V (p. 130) 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160U.
1916, ch. 160, sec. 198.
198. Whoever shall electioneer within one hundred feet of any
polling place of any such primary election in any county or shall hand
or deliver to any voter within one hundred feet of the election booth or
within the booth itself any ballot marked or unmarked, except the
unmarked ballot required by law to be handed the voter by the primary
election officials, or who shall place a distinguishing mark upon any
ballot delivered to for the use of any voter at such primary election,
or who shall endeavor to induce any voter within the polling place to
show how his ballot has been marked, or who shall deliver to any voter
for use in casting his ballot, or use any ballot different from those pro-
vided for in this sub-title, or who shall show the face of a marked
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