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eighteen inches in depth, strapped and secured on each edge and corner
with brass mouldings, securely brazed or soldered together at the junctions
thereof, so as to prevent it from being easily broken; it shall have a strong
wooden lid, which shall be fastened to the box with brass or iron hinges,
not accessible from the outside, and shall have a good Tale lock, there shall
be a slit in the lid just large enough to admit a single folded ballot at one
time, and the sides and bottom of the box shall be of clear plate glass not
less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Each such box, when not in
actual use at a polling place, shall be kept in a wooden case for the pro-
tection of the same and its contents in the transportation and storage
thereof.

An. Code, sec. 54. 1904, sec. 53. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 49. 1901, ch. 2. 1924, ch. 581, sec. 54.

62. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
each county and of the City of Baltimore to provide ballots for every elec-
tion for public officers held under this Article in which any voters within
the county or said city shall participate, and cause to be printed on the
ballots the name of every candidate whose name has been certified to or
filed with the proper officers in the manner herein provided by such politi-
cal party organization or body of individuals, but the said Supervisors
shall not be required to print; any name upon a ballot if such name shall
not have been certified to them at least ten days before election day. Each
ballot shall contain a statement of every constitutional amendment or other
question to be submitted to the vote of the people at any election. Ballots
other than those printed by the respective boards of Supervisors of Elec-
tions, according to the provisions of this Article, shall not be cast or counted
in any election except as hereinafter provided. Any voter may take with
him into the polling place any written or printed memorandum or paper
to assist him in marking or preparing his ballot, except a fac simile of the
ballot to be voted. Ballots shall be printed and in possession of the Super-
visors of Elections at least four days before election day, and a correct
list of the names of the candidates thereon with the designation of the
offices for which the persons named thereon are candidates shall be fur-
nished on demand by the Supervisors to the candidates or their authorized
agents. If any mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of said Super-
visors to correct the same without delay, and if said Supervisors shall de-
cline or refuse to make correction, then upon the sworn petition of any
qualified voter who would have the right to vote for such candidate at the
approaching election, the Circuit Court for any county or one of the Judges
of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may, by order, require said
Supervisors of Elections to correct such error or to show cause why such
error should not he corrected.

When a candidate has been regularly nominated by certificate in due form properly
signed, the supervisors must place his name upon official ballot. They cannot refuse
to do so because certain signers of certificate afterwards attempt to withdraw their
signatures. This section does not authorize the withdrawal of names from a certificate
of nomination. Requisites of petition for mandamus. Mandamus issued. Sterling v.
Jones, 87 Md. 143. See also Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 443.

Application for mandamus to compel election supervisors to print petitioners'
names upon official ballots as candidates of a party in Anne Arundel county, refused.
Local act of 1904, ch. 603. Revell v. Holladay, 102 Md. 93.