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present and shall be filed in the office of the Supervisors of
Elections.

90. Every voting machine used in any election, general,
special, or primary, shall remain locked and sealed thereafter
for a period of five days next succeeding such election,
and as much longer as may be necessary or advisable because
of any contest over the result of the election, except that it
may be opened and the data and figures therein examined in
the presence of the officer having the custody of such machine
upon the order of any court of competent jurisdiction, or
judges thereof, or by direction of any legislative committee
to investigate and report upon contested elections affected
by the use of such machine. If within two days after
verification of the returns, as provided by Section 89A,
the Board of Supervisors of Elections shall receive notice
in writing of any contest over the result of said election,
then such Board, within five days from the receipt of
such notice and in the presence of the principals involved
in any such contest or their authorized representatives, shall
proceed to inspect and examine the voting machines contain-
ing the votes cast for such contested office, and shall make a
record of the votes for such office as shown on said machine;
and they shall duly certify said record as correct, and shall
affix their signatures thereto and preserve the same for use
in such contest as evidence of the votes cast for such office
upon said machines. Such record shall be received as evi-
dence as fully as if proved by the oral testimony of the per-
sons who shall sign the same, or by the production of said
voting machines in court or before said Board. After such
inspection, examination and recording of the results thereof,
the said voting machines shall be released and made available
for use in any succeeding election.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 91 of Ar-
ticle 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition),
title "Elections", sub-title "Nominations and Primaries", as
said Article was revised by Chapter 934 of the Acts of 1945,
be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1947.