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1326 ARTICLE 33.
An. Code, sec. 181. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160D (p. 116).
193. All such primary elections shall be conducted under the control
of the several boards of supervisors of elections in Baltimore city and the
counties, respectively, by the judges and clerks of elections appointed by
them under the provisions of said article 33, for the conduct of elections
held thereunder in Baltimore city and in the several counties of the State,
and in the same manner as far as may be applicable as general elections are
conducted under said article 33, except as may be hereinafter otherwise
provided.
See notes to secs. 190 and 200.
An. Code, sec. 182. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160E (p. 116). 1912, ch. 2. 1912, ch. 347. 1914, ch. 792.
194. As many different sets of official ballots shall be printed and
supplied by the Board of Supervisors of Elections at each polling place,
and as many ballot-boxes shall be used at each polling place, as there are
separate party nominations, delegates, 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 con-
vention 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 paper of
different colors, to be determined by the several Boards of Supervisors of
Elections; and until after the next general registration in the Counties
every person offering to vote at a primary election shall be required to state
to which party he belongs and which party's candidate he intends to vote
for at the State, City or County election, and every qualified person offering
to vote in the several Counties in the State at a primary election shall be
permitted to vote in the primary election of that party to which he belongs
and which party candidate he intends to vote for at the State or County
election and in Baltimore City and in the Counties. After the next general
registration in the Counties, every qualified person offering to vote at a
primary election shall be permitted to vote in the primary election of that
party only with which he shall appear upon the books of registration to
be affiliated. The respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections in the
several Counties are hereby authorized and required, immediately upon the
passage of this Act, to have prepared new books of registry for use in all of
the districts or precincts of the said several Counties for the transcribing of
the names of the qualified voters residing therein from the registration books
in use. The said transcribing shall be done in the offices of the Boards of
Supervisors of Elections by four (4) clerks to be selected, two by the Super-
visors representing the majority party and two by the Supervisors rep-
resenting the minority party as the said parties are now constituted
in this State, except Baltimore County, where said transcribing shall
be done in the office of the Board of Supervisors of Elections by twelve (12)
clerks, to be selected, six by the Supervisors representing the majority
party and six by the Supervisors representing the minority party, as the
said parties are now constituted in this State. The transcribing shall be
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