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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

folded when received by him, and so that the initials of the

ballot clerk ahall appear and he shall keep the same so

folded until he has voted ; he shall vote in the manner pro-

vided in this article, leaving the enclosed space, and shall

hand his ballot to the judge of election with the official

endorsement uppermost ; he shall mark and deposit his

ballot without undue display, and shall quit said enclosed

space as soon as he has voted ; no voter shall be allowed to

occupy a voting shelf or compartment already occupied by

another, nor to occupy a voting shelf or compartment for

more than five minutes, in case of all such shelves or com- '

partments are in use, and other voters are waiting to occupy

the same ; no voter waiting his turn or other shall over-

look or converse with any voter while he is engaged in the

said compartment or voting shelf ; no voter not being one

of said election officers, whose name has been checked on the

registry by the judges shall be allowed to re-enter said

enclosed space during said election ; it shall be the duty of

the judges of election to secure the observance of the pro-

visions of this section and of other sections relating to the

duties of the ballot clerk, voters and others in and about

the polling rooms.

161 RR. No person shall take or remove any ballot from

the polling place before the close of the polls ; if any voter

Ballots not
to be re-

spoils a ballot he may successively obtain others one at a

moved

time, not exceeding three in all upon returning each spoiled

one ; the ballots thus returned shall be immediately can-

celed, and together with those not distributed to the voters,

shall be preserved, aud said undistributed ballots and those

thus canceled shall be securely enveloped and wrapped,

marked and sealed, and shall be delivered by the return

judges to the board of supervisors of election immediately

after the election, and they shall then be destroyed ; it shall

be the duty of the ballot clerks to keep an accurate account

of all ballots delivered by them to voters, and they shall

account for and deliver to the return judge all the ballots

not delivered to voters.

161 SS. Any voter who is blind or who declares to the

Blind
Voter.

ballot clerks that he cannot read, or that by reason of phys-

ical disability he is unable to mark his ballot, may apply to

two ballot clerks to assist him in the marking thereof.

161 TT. If the voter marks more names than there are

Not to be

persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is

counted

impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to

be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office; no

ballot without the official endorsement and the initials of

one of the ballot clerks, shall be allowed to be deposited in