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least four days before election day, and shall be subject to the
inspection of the candidates and their agents. If any mistake be
discovered, it shall be the duty of said supervisors to correct the
same without delay; and if said supervisors shall decline or refuse
to make correction, then, upon the sworn petition of any qualified
voter who would have the right to vote for such candidate at the
approaching election, the circuit court for the county or one of
the judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city may, by
order, require said supervisors of elections to correct such error,
or to show cause why such error should not be corrected.
Wells v. Munroe, 86 Md. 447.

1896, ch. 202.

50. The form and arrangement of the ballots shall be as fol-
lows: All ballots shall contain the name of every candidate
whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot has been
certified to and filed according to the provisions of this article
and not withdrawn in accordance herewith, and shall contain no
other names, except that in the case of electors for President and
Vice-President of the United States, the names of the candidates
for President and Vice-President may be added to the party or
political designation, and the name of a city or county in which
a candidate resides shall be added to the name of each candidate
on ballots for State offices. The names of candidates nominated
by each party shall be grouped together upon each ballot, and
each group shall be headed by the name of the political party by
which the candidates comprised in said group were placed in
nomination, as described in the certificate of nomination. When
the name of a political party is given in connection with the
name of a candidate nominated as provided in section 38 of this
article, it shall be stated on the ballot; but if there shall have
been any nomination for the same office by a convention or
primary election claiming the same party name, duly certified,
as hereinbefore provided, the word "independent" shall precede
the party name if the candidate is nominated under the provi-
sions of the said section 38. If the same party name or emblem
shall be claimed on behalf of nominations made by more than
one convention or primary election and duly certified, as afore-
said, the officers by whom the ballot is to be prepared, or a