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the word "Declined" shall be written opposite his name in such column so
that there shall be written in such column opposite the name of every regis-
tered voter, either his party affiliation or the word "Declined." Each and
every voter as he appears at the first primary election at which he votes sub-
sequent to April 16, 1914, shall, before he is permitted to vote at said
primary, state to which party he is inclined and to which party he desires
to have himself recorded as affiliated, and the Board of Registers, then
sitting as judges of election, shall thereupon and at once enter in the column
provided for party affiliations the name of the political party to which the
voter is inclined and with which he desires to affiliate, and in said primary
and all primary elections thereafter held, any person so registered as affil-
iated with a given political party shall have the right to vote the official
ballot of that party and of no other.

All persons arriving at the age of twenty-one years, after the closing of
the next preceding registration, or who shall attain the age of twenty-one
years before the general election for which the primary election is held,
entitled to be registered as qualified voters, shall be entitled to vote upon
proving, under oath, to the satisfaction of a majority of the Judges of
Election, their right to registration in the precinct in which they claim the
right to vote, provided they shall declare their intentions to vote for the
candidate or candidates of the party at whose primary they tender their
ballots.

No person or voter after having had his affiliation registered shall be
permitted to make any change in his party affiliation unless the same shall
be made at least six months prior to the day of the primary election.

The name of a Republican candidate should be placed upon the ballot notwith-
standing fact that he is an affiliated Democrat; the fact that such person could not
vote for himself, or was not a registered voter of the district at the time of the
primaries, is immaterial. See notes to sec. 235. German v. Sauter, 136 Md. 54.

See notes to sec. 239.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 197. 1912, sec. 183. 1908, ch. 737, secs. 160 E and G. 1910, ch 741,
sec. 160F (p. 117). 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160F. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 197.

234. The books of registry or the binders containing the registration
cards of the precinct shall be furnished to the judges at each polling place
by the respective Boards of Supervisors of Elections, and shall be used
at such elections in the same way as they are now used at municipal, county,
judicial, congressional, or general elections held under the provisions of
said Article 33. In the books of registry now in use, or in the books of
registry or on the registration cards which may be hereafter prepared for
use in Baltimore City, or which may be prepared for use in the several
counties a column headed "Voted at Primary Election," shall be used;
in each column such word "voted" or letter "V" shall be hereafter en-
tered at the primary election at which such registry shall be used, and
opposite the name of each person voting.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 198. 1912, sec. 184. 1908, ch. 737, secs. 160C, D, G and O. 1910,

ch. 741, sec. 160G (p. 117). 1912, ch. 2. 1914, ch. 714, sec. 160G. 1916, ch. 160,

sec. 184. 1924, ch. 423.

235. Official ballots shall be prepared and printed for such primary
elections in Baltimore City and in the several counties, respectively, by the
said several Boards of Supervisors of Elections for said city and said
several counties, respectively, as is now provided by this Article for general
elections, except as otherwise provided for in this sub-title, and except that
on the back and outside of all such official ballots shall be printed only the