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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 bot-
toms 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 protection of the same and
its contents in the transportation and storage thereof.

1898, ch. 2. 1904, ch. 329, se'c. 270QQ. 1918 Code, sec. 393.

368. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections to
provide ballots for every election for public officers held under this sub-
title, in which any voters within said city shall participate, and to cause
to be printed on the ballot the name! of every candidate whose name has
been certified to or filed with the proper officers in the manner herein
provided for, but the said Supervisors shall not be required to print any
name upon a ballot if the same shall not have been certified to them at
least six days before election day. Each ballot shall contain a statement
of every question to be submitted to the vote of the people at any election.
Ballots other than those printed by the Board of Supervisors of Elections,
according to the provisions of this subtitle, shall not be cast or counted
in any election except as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this subtitle
contained shall prevent any voter from writing on his ballot and marking
in the proper place the name of any person other than those already
printed for whom he may desire to vote for any office, and such vote shall
be counted the same as if the name of such person had been printed upon
the ballot and marked by the voter. Any voter may take with him into
the polling place any printed or written memorandum or paper to assist
him in making or preparing his ballot, except a facsimile of the ballot to
be voted. Ballots shall be printed and in possession of the Supervisors of
Elections at least four days before election day, and shall be subject to
the inspection of the candidates and their agents. If any mistake be dis-

covered, it shall be the duty of said Supervisors to correct the same with-
out delay; and if said Supervisors shall decline or refuse to make correc-
tion, then, upon the sworn petition of any qualified voter who would have
the right to vote for such candidate at the approaching election, the Cir-
cuit Court for Frederick County may, by order, require said Supervisors

of Elections to correct such error or to show cause why such error should
not be corrected.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270RR. 1918 Code, sec. 394.

369. The form and arrangements of the ballot shall be as follows: All
ballots shall contain the name of every candidate whose nomination for
any office specified in the ballot has been certified to and filed according
to the provisions of this subtitle, and not withdrawn in accordance here-
with, and shall contain no other names. The names of candidates nomi-
nated by each party shall be grouped together upon each ballot, and each
group shall be headed by the name of the political party by which the

candidates comprised in said group were placed in nomination, as de-