ART. 33] MANNER OF VOTING. 1045

right thereof, in the blank space provided therefor, a cross—for
example (X)—and in case of a question submitted to a vote of
the people, by marking likewise in the appropriate space a
cross-mark (X) against the answer which he desires to give.
Not more than one voter shall be permitted to occupy any one
booth or compartment at one time, and no voter shall remain
in or occupy a booth longer than may be necessary to prepare
his ballot, and in no event longer than seven minutes in case
all such booths or compartments are in use and other voters
are waiting to occupy the same. Before leaving the voting
booth or compartment the voter shall fold his ballot without
displaying the marks thereon, and in the same way it was folded
when received by him, and he shall keep the same so folded
until he has voted, and so that the signature or initials of the
judge from whom he received it, and the name and number
written on the coupon thereof, but nothing else thereon may be
seen. He shall forthwith hand his said ballot to the judge at
the ballot box, and shall give his name and residence and upon
his being identified as the person who received said ballot, the
judge shall deposit his ballot in the box, having first detached
therefrom its coupon, which he shall then string upon a cord
or wire to be provided for the purpose, and the said voter shall
forthwith leave the enclosed space. The judges having charge
of the registers shall then in the column therein headed
"Voted" in the same line with the name of the voter mark the
word "Voted" or the letter "V." No ballot without the in-
dorsement of the name or initials of the judge thereon, as
hereinbefore provided, shall be deposited in said ballot-box,
but if deposited shall be counted for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the number thereof, and the judges shall in ink mark on
the back thereof the word "counted" and indorse their names.
Duvall v. Miller, 94 Md 709. Coulehan v. White 95 Md. 714

1896, ch. 202, sec. 62. 1901, ch. 2.

67. Assistance in marking their ballots shall be given to
voters who shall declare under oath to the judges of election
that by reason of blindness or physical disability they are
unable without assistance to mark their ballot. Upon making
and filing with the judges such affidavit the voter shall retire to
one of said booths with the two clerks, and then and there one
of said clerks, in the presence of the other, shall mark the
ballot as such voter shall direct, the voter himself naming one
by one the candidates for whom he desires his ballot to be
marked and not indicating the candidates by a general desig-