ELECTIONS 1565

Voting by Mail.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 225. 1912, sec. 219. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 219.

304. Whenever a state of war exists in the United States, or such other
circumstances occur as to cause the Government of the United States to
call into service the Maryland National Guard, or any of the units of the
Maryland National Guard, and the Maryland Naval Militia, or either the
Maryland National Guard or the Maryland Naval Militia, and by reason
of such state of war or such other circumstances, duly qualified voters of the
State are absent from the ward or election district in which they reside on
the day set for any general, primary or special election, whether Presi-
dential, Congressional, Judicial, State, County or Legislative District or
any election in Baltimore City, the Governor may, by proclamation, pub-
lished once in no more than three newspapers in each county and in Balti-
more City, suspend the operation of the election laws of the State and all
rules and regulations adopted thereunder, so far as such laws and rules
and regulations are inconsistent with the provisions of this sub-title.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 226. 1912, sec. 220. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 220.

305. Whenever the Governor shall issue a proclamation as provided for
in the preceding section, the following provisions shall become effective as
law, and all laws and rules and regulations inconsistent with this sub-title
shall be suspended:

(a) Certificates of nomination shall be filed respectively with the Sec-
retary of State not less than 43 days, and with the Supervisors of Elections
not less than 40 days before the day of election, and in all other respects
Section 90 of the Article 33 of the Annotated Code, Chapter 133, Acts of
1902, is to remain in full force and operation.

(b) Not less than 36 days before an election to fill any public office, the
Secretary of State shall certify to the Supervisors of Elections of each
county and of Baltimore City the name and description of nominees in the
manner provided for in Section 91 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code,
Chapter 202, Acts of 1896, and in all other respects the said Section 91 is
to remain in full force and operation.

(c) Notifications by those declining nominations shall be made at least
35 days before election, and in all other respects Section 93 of Article 33
of the Annotated Code, Chapter 202, Acts of 1896, shall remain in full
force and operation.

(d) Should any person nominated to fill a public office die before elec-
tion day or decline the nomination, as herein provided, or should any
certificate of nomination be or become insufficient or inoperative, the va-
cancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled in the manner provided for
original nominations. The certificate of the substituted candidate shall,
except in case of a nominee dying, be filed at least 30 days before the day
of election, and in cases of either resignation or death shall be filed within
six days after the vacancy shall have occurred. It shall be the duty of the
Secretary of State to certify all such substitute nominations to the Super-
visors of Elections immediately after they are filed with him. In case of a
vacancy occurring within so short a. time before the day of election that
the certificate of nomination of the new nominee shall be too late for the
name of the new nominee to be printed in the ballots in any county or in
the City of Baltimore, the Board of Election Supervisors of such county
or city shall at once cause to be printed a sufficient number of stickers