ELECTIONS 1543

At least one voting machine shall be provided for each four hundred reg-
istered voters, and the Board of Supervisors of Elections is authorized and
directed to rearrange precinct boundaries in Baltimore City and, where
necessary, to enlarge or reduce the number of such precincts so as to permit.
as far as may be practicable, the use of one voting machine for each four
hundred registered voters in said City; provided, however, that no change
shall be made in the Ward lines, Legislative District lines, or Congressional
District lines in said City; and provided, further, that each precinct in
said City shall be equipped with such number of voting machines, not
exceeding one machine for each unit of foiir hundred voters or fractional
part thereof, as the Board of Supervisors of Elections shall deem necessary
for the proper conduct of any election.

In the polling places of precincts where voting machines are required to
be used by the provisions of this Act, such elections in such polling places
shall be conducted by the four judges of election whose appointment is else-
where provided for under the terms of this Article, and for such polling
places in such precincts no clerks of election shall be appointed. Provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of paper
ballots in polling places for which said Supervisors have not available or
are unable to procure voting machines as herein required; and in such
polling places where paper ballots may be used as aforesaid, elections shall
be conducted in all respects in accordance with the provisions of said Arti-
cle 33 relating to elections held by means of paper ballots.

The Board of Supervisors of Elections shall determine the respective
duties of the judges of election in respect to the conduct of elections in those
polling places where such voting machines are used, and shall adopt and
enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary properly to conduct
said elections.

All voting machines used in a primary election shall remain locked and
sealed for the period of ten days next succeeding the date of the primary
election, after which time the voting machines may be unsealed and un-
locked and made available for preparation for use in the succeeding election.
Provided, however, that upon receipt of notice of contest, as provided by
Section 255 or Section 277 of this Article, the Board of Supervisors of
Elections shall, within five days from the receipt of such notice, proceed
to inspect and examine the voting machines containing the votes cast for
such contested office, and shall make a record of the votes for said contested
office as shown on said voting machines, which record they shall duly certify
as correct and shall affix their signatures thereto, and shall preserve such
records so that the same may be available in such contest as evidence of
the votes cast for such office upon said voting machines. Such record shall
be received as evidence as fully and with as full force and effect as if proved
by the oral testimony of the persons who shall sign the same, or by the pro-
duction of said voting machines in Court or before said Board. The prin-
cipals of such contest, and their authorized representatives, shall be per-
mitted to be present at the aforementioned inspection and examination of
said voting machines. After such inspection, examination and recording of
the results thereof, the said voting machines shall immediately thereafter
be released and shall be available for preparation for use in the succeeding
election.

No voter, in the use of a voting machine, shall be permitted to occupy
more than two minutes while other voters are waiting to use the same.