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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 261.

AN ACT to amend the Code of Public Local Laws article 3,

title "Baltimore County," adding thereto the following

sections under title "Primary Elections."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

New

Maryland, That article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws,

sections

title " Baltimore County," be and the same is hereby amended

and the following sections be and they are hereby added

thereto under the title of "Primary Elections."

1. All primary elections hereafter to be held by any vol-

untary political association or party in Baltimore County

Primary
elections

for delegates to any managing convention, to any nomi-

nating convention or for the nomination of candidates for

State, or county offices shall be held under the terms and

subject to the provisions of this article.

2. The wards primary elections as used in this act shall

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be construed to embrace all elections, precinct meetings or

construe.

other meetings held by any political party for the purpose

of choosing candidates for office or of electing delegates to

nominating conventions or officers of any political party.

3. All primary elections held under the provisions of this

article shall be by precincts, or districts as the case may be,

Polls shall
be open

and at every such election the polls shall be open for such

time as may be prescribed by the State central committee

or the county executive committee ordering said primary

election, precinct meeting or other meeting.

4. Every primary election shall be presided over and

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conducted by officers to be selected in the manner pre-

governed.

scribed by the usages, rules, regulations or customs of the

party holding such primary...

5. Every ballot box used at such primary elections shall

be so placed in a window or elsewhere that the voters may

Ballot box

conveniently see every ballot received by the judges and

deposited in the ballot box and no screen or other obstruc-

tion to such view of any ballot by the voters, shall be

allowed.

6. The rooms used for polling places at such elections

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shall be of a reasonable size and there shall be allowed at

all times in the polling places, one challenger for each

ticket, the judges and clerks, and after the election is

closed, any candidate or persons designated by him and

such other persons as in the judgment of the judges of

elections, it may be proper to admit to guarantee the fair-

ness of the count, shall be entitled to be present during the

counting of the ballots.