1338 ARTICLE 33.

And said candidate thus receiving the majority vote of said county or
legislative district or being the last remaining candidate shall be consid-
ered the " second choice " of said county or legislative district and shall
be entitled to receive the votes of said county or legislative district in the
State Convention after the name of the first choice candidate shall have
been dropped from the consideration of said convention as hereinafter
provided.

2nd. In case no candidate receives a majority of all the " first choice "
votes cast and counted in any county or legislative district, but only re-
ceives a plurality thereof, then the candidate receiving the lowest " first
choice " vote shall be dropped at the canvass and the ballots tallied for
him for " first choice " shall be distributed among the remaining candi-
dates according to the way his said voters voting for said lowest candidate
for first choice have indicated their " second choice."

And the process of dropping from the canvass the lowest candidate as
aforesaid and distributing the " second choice" marked upon his first
choice ballots among the remaining candidates shall be continued by the
Supervisors of Election at the canvass until one of them shall be credited
with a majority of all the votes cast and counted for said office in said
county or legislative district or until there is only one candidate remaining.

And such candidate so receiving a majority or being the last remaining
candidate shall be the " first choice " of said county or legislative district,
and shall b,e entitled to receive the vote of the delegates from such county
.or legislative district on the first and subseouent ballots in the State Con-
vention until his name is dropped before such convention as hereinafter
provided.

And the second choice of said county or legislative district shall be de-
termined by distributing the votes of the "first choice " candidate among
the remaining candidates according to the way his said voters have indi-
cated their " second choice " or preference. And if this does not give a
majority of all the votes cast and counted to any candidate, then the lowest
first choice candidate shall be dropped from the canvass and his " second
choices " distributed among the remaining candidates and thus added to
their " first choice " votes.

And if necessary, continuing the above process by dropping the lowest
candidates and distributing his votes as marked for " second choice"
among the remaining candidates until one has a majority of the votes cast
and counted or is the only one remaining. And such one so having a ma-
jority or being the only one remaining shall be the " second choice " candi-
date of said county or legislative district and shall be entitled to receive the
votes of said county or legislative district in the State Convention after the
name of the first choice candidate of said county or legislative district
shall have been dropped from the consideration of said convention as here-
inafter provided.

In addition thereto the Supervisors of Elections in Baltimore City and
the counties of the State shall issue to the delegates elected to each State
convention of such parties, a certificate of election, which certificate shall
also contain the result of such primary election balloting where there are