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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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ELECTIONS 1437

and under the heading shall be indicated the ward and precinct followed by
the statement:

"Any voter of the city on or before the twenty-first day prior to the
election may file with the Board of Supervisors of Elections at the
Board's offices located at....................objections to the reg-
istration of any person on this list who, he or she has reason to believe,
is not eligible to vote, or a request for the addition to the list of regis-
tered voters whose names have been omitted or who have been errone-
ously dropped from the registration list of the precinct."

Appended to each precinct list shall be attached the names of the
members of the Board and the name of the chief clerk. A sufficient number
of such lists, but not to exceed fifty lists of each precinct, may be provided
for distribution to such candidates or political parties as shall apply there-
for. Not later than twenty-six days before the election the Board shall
cause one copy of each such precinct list to be conspicuously posted and
displayed at the polling place in each such precinct.

Application for the correction of any such precinct registration list
or a challenge of the right to vote of a person named on such list may be
made by any qualified voter of the City at the office of the Board not later
than twenty-one days prior to the election. Such applications or challenges,
with the reasons therefor, shall be filed on forms provided by the Board
for that purpose and shall be attested by the oath of such qualified voter.

Two members of the Board, of opposite political parties, shall sit for the
purpose of hearing applications for changes in such lists, or challenges of
the right to vote of persons on such lists, on the Tuesday two weeks before
an election between the hours of 9.00 A. M. and 12.00 M., and between the
hours of 1.00 P. M. and 5.00 P. M., and such other hours as such members
may fix. If all such applications or challenges be not determined on that
day, such members of the Board shall sit during the same hours on succeed-
ing days until all cases are heard and decided. If such members of the
Board are unable to hear all such cases within one week from the time
when such sessions shall commence, they may appoint one or more Boards
of two members each of opposite political parties to aid in hearing such
applications or challenges, and may allow such persons not to exceed twelve
dollars per day for each day served. Persons whose right to register has
been challenged and persons whose names, it is alleged, have been errone-
ously omitted from the list shall be notified and may appear in person
or by counsel. At the request of either party the Board shall issue sub-
poenas to witnesses to appear at such hearings and such witnesses shall
be sworn and examined. All cases shall be heard and decided immediately
after hearing. If a board constituted as above provided shall decide that
any such person is not entitled to have his or her name on the registration
list, his or her name shall be removed therefrom and his or her registra-
tion forms cancelled. If a board so constituted shall decide that the name
of any such person should appear on such registration list, it shall be added
thereto, and his or her registration forms placed in the proper registration
files. All such corrections and additions shall be made on a copy of the .
precinct lists, which shall constitute the poll lists, to be furnished to the
respective precincts with other election supplies on the day preceding the
election, to be used by the judges in receiving the signatures of voters and
in checking against the registration forms.

Any person who shall feel aggrieved by the action of any of the above
mentioned boards may, for any of the causes and within the time men-


 

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