1046 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

nation as the candidates of any one political party. The bal-
lots shall not be read to such voter, nor shall any suggestion
of any kind be made by either of said two clerks to show him
as to how his ballot is to be marked, but the only assistance
which it shall be lawful for the clerks to give him is to mark
the ballot as he, without prompting or suggestion from them,
or either of them shall direct, but no ballot shall be marked
under this section until a majority of the judges of election
shall be satisfied of the truth of the fact stated in such affidavit.
Voters who are not disabled by blindness or physical injury
from marking their ballots shall not be entitled to receive
assistance in marking them. And with the exception in favor
of persons blind or incapable from physical injury of marking
their ballots without assistance, no distinction or discrimina-
tion in the matter of assistance in marking ballots shall be
made for or against any duly registered voter for any other
cause whatever.
Summerson v. Schilling, 94 Md. 588, 605.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 63.

68. Any voter who shall, by accident or mistake, spoil his
ballot so that he cannot conveniently vote the same may, on
returning said spoiled ballot to the judge holding the ballots,
receive another in place of it, with his name and the same
number written on the coupon thereof, as on the ballot so
returned, but no voter shall receive more than three ballots from
said judge for the reason aforesaid. The ballots thus returned
shall be immediately cancelled by endorsing thereon the word
"spoiled," and, together with those not distributed to the
voters, shall be preserved and returned to the supervisors of
elections, as hereinafter provided. Every voter who does not
vote any ballot delivered to him shall, before leaving the poll-
ing place, return such ballot to the judge from whom he
received it, and said returned ballot shall be retained as if said
ballot had been spoiled. When anyone claiming to be a per-
son whose name appears upon the registers shall make appli-
cation for a ballot, his right to vote at that election may be
challenged, but shall not be determined until after he has
marked his ballot and delivered it to the judge at the ballot
box. The person challenging shall assign his reason therefor,
and one of the judges shall thereupon administer to the person
offering to vote an oath to make true answers to questions,
and if he shall take said oath, he shall be questioned by the
judge or judges touching said cause of challenge, and he may