152 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 94

part thereof, as the Board of Supervisors of Election shall
deem necessary for the proper conduct of any election.

In the polling places of precincts where voting machines are
required to be used by the provisions of this Act, such elections
in such polling places shall be conducted by the four Judges of
election whose appointment is elsewhere provided for under
the terms of this Article, and for such polling places in such
precincts no clerks of election shall be appointed. Provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of
paper ballots in polling places for which said Supervisors have
not available or are unable to procure voting machines as
herein required; and in such polling places where paper ballots
may be used as aforesaid, elections shall be conducted in all
respects in accordance with the provisions of said Article 33
relating to elections held by means of paper ballots.

The Board of Supervisors of Election shall determine the
respective duties of the Judges of election in respect to the
conduct of elections in those polling places where such voting
machines are used, and shall adopt and enforce such rules and
regulations as may be necessary properly to conduct said elec-
tions.

All voting machines used in a primary election shall remain
locked and sealed for the period of ten days next succeeding
the date of the primary election, after which time the voting
machines may be unsealed and unlocked and made available
for preparation for use in the succeeding election. Provided,
however, that upon receipt of notice of contest, as provided
by Section 217 or Section 224R of this Article, the Board of
Supervisors of Election shall, within five days from the receipt
of such notice, proceed to inspect and examine the voting
machines containing the votes cast for such contested office,
and shall make a record of the votes for said contested office
as shown on said voting machines, which record they shall
duly certify as correct and shall affix their signatures thereto,
and shall preserve such records so that the same may be avail-
able in such contest as evidence of the votes cast for such office
upon said voting machines. Such record shall be received as*
evidence as fully and with as full force and effect as if proved
by the oral testimony of the persons who shall sign the same,
or by the production of said voting machines in Court or before
said Board. The principals of such contest, and their author-
ized representatives, shall be permitted to be present at the
aforementioned inspection and examination of said voting ma-
chines. After such inspection, examination and recording of
the results thereof, the said voting machines shall immediately
thereafter be released and shall be available for preparation
for use in the succeeding election.