322 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

every ballot shall contain the names of all candidates whose
nominations for any office or officers specified in the ballot
has been duly made, and not withdrawn in accordance with
the provisions of this article, and no other names; the
names of candidates nominated by each political party,
shall be grouped together in parallel columns on the ballot,
and headed by the name of the political party by which the
candidates composing said group were placed in nomination
as described in the certificates of nomination, if the same
individual is nominated for the same office by the party
conventions, or at the primary elections of two or more
political parties entitled to nominate candidates, by party
convention or primary election, his name shall be placed in
the group or column of each said political parties, but in
no other event shall the name of any candidate for any
office be placed more than once upon the ballot. When a
party emblem, or device has been added to the certificate
as stated in section one hundred and thirty, it shall be
printed to the left of or above the name of the political
party, preceding the party group. When a name of a politi-
cal party is given in any nomination papers in connection with
the name of any nominee, it shall be stated on the ballot, but
if, there shall have been a nomination, by a party convention
or lawful primary election claiming the same party name
for the same office duly certified as provided in this article
the word " Independent" shall precede the party name of
the person or persons nominated by nomination papers. If
the same party name or emblem or both shall be claimed on
behalf of nominations made by more than one convention,
or primary election, and duly certified in point of form
under the provisions of this article the officers by whom the
ballot is to be prepared, are a majority of them, shall de-
termine, which nominees are justly entitled to the party
designation, or emblem, and the word " Independent" shall
precede the party name with respect to the other group,
or groups, of nominees, and the emblem shall be omit-
ted from the "Independent" group or groups. There
shall be at the right of all groups of candidates a
column coutainug as many blank spaces as there are
officers to be voted for, in which the voter may insert in
writing, or otherwise, the name of any person not printed
on the ballot, for whom he may desire to vote as a candidate
for such office. Whenever one or more constitutional amend-
ments or other questions are submitted to the vote of the
people, the same shall be placed in a column on the right of
the ticket with a margin to the right of said column. In
this margin there shall be placed two boxes, or squares
opposite each constitutional amendment or other question.