428 ARTICLE 33.

cate of candidacy for nomination in any primary election shall at least
fifteen days before the day of such primary election, in a writing signed
by him or her, and acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public, notify the officer or Board with whom the certificate of candidacy
is by this Article required to be filed, that he or she desires to withdraw
as a candidate for such nomination, such certificate of candidacy shall
thereupon be and become void, and the name of any person so withdraw-
ing shall not be printed upon the ballots to be used at such primary elec-
tion.

See notes to sec. 56.

59.

This section referred to in construing sec. 55. Tull v. Fitzgerald, 167 Md. 431.
Ballots and Ballot Boxes.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 69. 1912, sec. 63. 1904, sec. 61. 1S96, ch. 202, sec. 56.

1920 (Special Sess. ), ch. 1, sec. 63. 1922, ch. 305. 1924, ch. 594.

1935, chs. 105 and 140.

69. The polling places shall be opened by the judges of election at 6
o'clock A. M. in the City of Baltimore, and shall be kept open until
5 o'clock P. M. of the same day, at which time the polls shall be closed,
and in the Counties the polling places shall be opened at 7 A. M. and
shall be kept open until 1 P. M., at which time the polls shall be closed;
except that in Garrett., Washington, Carroll, Montgomery, Calvert and
Delmar District of Wicomico, the polling places shall be open at six
o'clock A. M., and in Talbot County and Dorchester County the polling
places shall not be opened until 8 A. M. If any judge or clerk shall not
be present at the expiration of fifteen minutes after the time for opening
the polls the judge or judges present shall fill the place of the absent
judge or clerk by appointing in his stead a person of the same political
party as the absentee. One of the judges shall administer to such substi-
tute the oath required of the judge or clerk originally appointed. After
the opening of the polls no judge or clerk shall absent himself therefrom
until all the ballots cast shall have been counted and the returns com-
pleted. If, in case of absolute necessity, any judge or clerk in attendance
shall be compelled to absent himself, he shall appoint some fit person of
the same political party with himself to act in his stead until his return,
having first administered to such substitute the same oath as he himself
has taken. Blank forms for the appointment of the substitute judges and
clerks and the oath aforesaid shall be supplied by the Supervisors, and
the oath when administered shall be preserved and returned by the judges
to the supervisors. The appointment and swearing in of all such substi-
tutes and the reason therefor, and the time when such substitute began
and ceased to serve shall be noted by the judges in the poll book of the
precinct; such substitute shall cease to act whenever the judge or clerk
in whose stead he was appointed shall be present.