1224 ARTICLE 33.

Judges and Clerks of Election.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 7. 1924, ch. 426, sec. 7.

8. In the year 1924 and biennially thereafter the Board of Supervisors
of Elections in the City of Baltimore shall select before the first day of
July four judges of election, and before the fifteenth day of September, two
clerks for each election precinct in said city, taking two of such judges and
one of such clerks from each of the two leading political parties of the State.
The Boards of Supervisors in the several counties, in the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-four, and biennially thereafter for their respective
counties, shall select, before the first day of July, two judges of election,
and, before the fifteenth day of September, two more judges of election and
two clerks for each election district in their respective counties, or, where a
district is divided into voting precincts, for each voting precinct in such
district, taking one of such judges and one of such clerks, in making each
such selection, and for each such voting precinct or district, from each of the
two leading political parties of the State, so that such parties shall be equally
represented at all times among said election officers. It shall not be neces-
sary to appoint new or special judges or clerks' of election for any special
election; but the judges and clerks appointed under this Article for the pre-
ceding election shall discharge the duties of said judges and clerks of elec-
tion, respectively, within their several precincts or districts wherein such
election shall be held. Each judge and each clerk must be a legal voter resid-
ing in the precinct or district, as the case may be, for which he is selected, a
man of good capacity and character, able to speak, read and write the Eng-
lish language, and skilled in the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, not
holding any other public office or employment, and not a candidate for any
office at the next election; provided, that in the City of Baltimore when-
ever all three supervisors shall file in their office a sworn statement in writ-
ing that suitable persons cannot, in their judgment be secured in any
particular precinct for some of the offices to be filled, such offices may in
such case be filled by persons otherwise qualified residing in another pre-
cinct of the same ward.

For a case upholding the constitutionality of act of 1890, ch. 538 (requiring
county commissioners to appoint judges of election), see Lankford v. Somerset
County, 73 Md. 107.

This section referred to in construing sec. 9; see notes thereto. Election Super-
visors v. Loden, 129 Md. 280.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 8.

9. Each supervisor shall have a veto upon the proposed selection or
nomination of any judge or clerk; and if in any case, in consequence of
such veto, the board of supervisors cannot agree upon an appointment,
then the supervisor or supervisors belonging to the political party entitled
to be represented by the judge or clerk in question shall name three men
who are eligible, and from these the other supervisor or supervisors shall
select such judge or clerk.

The veto when exercised, as provided by this section, prevents the selection of
any judge or clerk proposed for selection; thereafter the other two supervisors may
not appoint a person so vetoed. When board cannot agree upon an appointment and