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served and returned by the judges to the supervisors. The appointment
and swearing in of all/such substitutes and the reason therefor, and the
time when such substitute began and cfeased to serve shall be noted by' the
judges in the poll, books of the precinct or on loose-leaf pages inserted in
the binders containing the precinct cards; such substitute shall cease, to act
whenever the judge or clerk in whose stead he was appointed shall be
present.

This section referred to in construing Secs. 264-282. Norris v. Baltimore, 172 Md. 685.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 71. 1912, sec. 64. 1904, sec. 62. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 57. 1937,

ch. 95,. sec. 71...

106. Each political party or other body of voters having a candidate
or candidates duly nominated shall have the right to designate and keep
a challenger and watcher at each place of registration and election, who
shall be assigned to such positions near the judges of election, inside the
registration or polling-room as to enable them to see each person as he
offers to register or vote, and they shall be protected in the discharge of.
their duty by the judges of election and the police. A certificate signed
by the candidates or by the presiding officer of the chief managing com-
mittee of their party in the city or county shall be sufficient evidence of
the right of such challenger and watcher to be present in the registration
or polling-room. In case any challenger or watcher does not produce such
certificate, the judges of election shall recognize a challenger or watcher
vouched for by the persons present belonging to such political party or by
the judge representing such party. Such challenger or watcher shall have
the right to remain in the polling-room outside the rail hereinafter men-
tioned from the time the polls are opened until they are closed, and after
that time he shall be permitted to remain within the rail until the returns
are completed. The refusal to permit any such challenger so to remain
shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding one year, or by both fine and
imprisonment, but it shall be unlawful for any such challenger to inquire
or ascertain for what candidate or candidates any voter may intend to vote
or has voted, or to confer in the polling-room with any voter or to assist
him in the preparation of his ballot or in the operation of a voting ma-
chine, and any challenger offering or attempting to do so may lawfully
be ejected by the judges and shall also be subject to the punishment here-
inafter provided. A challenger or watcher may be removed at any time by
the same person or committee or by the chairman of the committee which
appointed him. Citizens other than accredited challengers or watchers who
desire to challenge the vote of any person then inside the polling-room
shall be permitted to enter said room for that purpose, but a majority of the
judges may limit the number of persons to be allowed in the polling-room
at any one time for such purpose, and all such persons shall leave the
polling-room as soon as the right to vote of the person challenged by them
shall have been decided.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 72. 1912, sec. 65. 1904, sec. 63. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 58.

1937, ch. 95, sec. 72... . .

107. Each clerk of election in the counties and (prior to the election
of 1940) in Baltimore City, and in 1940 and thereafter each clerk of elec-
tion in those precincts of Baltimore City in which paper ballots shall be
used shall keep a poll-book containing a column headed "Number," and