ELECTIONS. 1335

counties. All of said expenses shall be paid by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore and the county commissioners, respectively, in precisely the same
way as the salaries of the said supervisors of elections of Baltimore city
and in the several counties, and as other expenses of every kind mentioned
in said sections 3 and 7 of said article 33 are provided to be paid.

An. Code, sec. 188. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160K (p. 123). 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160K.

203. Every candidate for the nomination for a State office; that is
to say, an office filled by the vote of all the registered voters of the State
of Maryland, shall be nominated by conventions, the delegates to which
shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of this article by the
direct vote of the registered voters belonging to the political party of which
the candidate is a member, and whose nomination for such office he is
seeking; the ballots in such cases shall contain the names of the candidates
for public office, delegates to party conventions and managing bodies,
executives or executive committee to be voted for as provided in the afore-
going sections, and in addition thereto and in the same manner the names
of all candidates for state offices, who have duly qualified to have their
names placed upon such ballot in the manner provided by this article.

In case there are only two candidates for any State office, then the one
receiving the highest vote in any county or legislative district shall receive
the vote of the delegates from such county or legislative district in the
State Convention, and the result shall be so certified by the Supervisors of
Elections as hereinafter provided.

In case there are more than two candidates for any State office, there
shall be provided on the ballot two squares opposite the name of each of
said candidates, which shall be designated from left to right as " First
Choice " and " Second Choice," respectively, so that each voter may in-
dicate his first and second choice or preference by placing a cross-mark in
the appropriate squares as aforesaid. Such cross-marks to be made in the
same manner as other cross-marks' for voting at primary elections under
this article for Baltimore City and the several counties of this State,
respectively.

If the voter marks the same candidate for first choice and also for sec-
ond choice, then such ballot shall only be counted for " First Choice " for
said candidate and shall not be counted at all for " Second Choice "; if
for second choice only it shall be counted for first choice.

The tally sheet for such candidates for State offices shall be so arranged
as to show plainly and distinctly how the individual voters voting for any
certain candidate (John Smith, for instance), indicated their second
choice or preference from among the remaining candidates (for instance,
James Robinson and Peter Brown), in the following form: