ELECTIONS 1523,

Convention, and all candidates to be elected at the presidential elections,
other than delegates to National Conventions and presidential electors
(which said delegates and electors shall be chosen by the State Convention
as aforesaid), shall be held on the first Monday in May. All such political
parties as aforesaid, shall hold their several primaries on the same day. In
case such governing bodies for the State fail to agree on a date within the
period fixed aforesaid, that is to say, not earlier than the eighth nor later
than the fifteenth day of September of each and every year, except the presi-
dential years, said primary election shall be held on the second Monday of
September in any year. Notices shall be given of the times and places of
holding said primary elections by the several Boards of Supervisors of
Elections, in the City of Baltimore and of the counties of this State, respec-
tively, in the same way precisely as notice is required to be given for a
municipal and county election held under the provisions of Article 33 of
the Code of Public General Laws.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 192. 1912, sec. 180. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160C (p. 116).

231. There shall be at every primary election in the city of Baltimore
and in each county a voting place in each election precinct of each ward
and of each election district, or in each election district which may not be
divided into election precincts; and each of said voting places shall be
selected by the board of supervisors of elections in Baltimore City and in
the counties, as provided in section 13 of this article, with respect to general,
municipal and county elections, and furnished in the same manner as at a
general election.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 193. 1912, sec. 181. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160D (p. 116).

232. All such primary elections shall he conducted under the control
of the several boards of supervisors, of elections in Baltimore City and the
counties, respectively, by the judges and clerks of elections appointed by
them under the provisions of said article 33, for the conduct of elections
held thereunder in Baltimore City and in the several counties of the State,
and in the same manner as far as may be applicable as general elections are
conducted under said article 33, except as may be hereinafter otherwise
provided.

See notes to secs. 229 and 238.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 194. 1912, sec. 182. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160E (p. 116). 1912, ch. 2.

1912, ch. 347. 1914, ch. 792.

233. As many different sets of official ballots shall be printed and
supplied by the Board of Supervisors of Elections at each polling place,
and as many ballot-boxes shall be used at each polling place, as there are
separate party nominations, delegates, executives or managing or executive
bodies to be voted for; and to prevent voters belonging to or acting with one
political party from inadvertently or intentionally casting their ballots for
the candidate for nomination for office, or election as delegate to any con-
vention or as executive or member of an executive or managing committee
of any other party, and to facilitate its being promptly detected if so cast,
the ballots of the several parties shall be printed upon opaque paper of
different colors, to be determined by the several Boards of Supervisors of
Elections; and until after the next general registration in the Counties
every person offering to vote at a primary election shall be required to state