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No voter, in the use of a voting machine, shall be permitted
to occupy more than two minutes while other voters are wait-
ing to use the same.

In the polling places of election precincts where voting ma-
chines are used, the polls shall be opened at six o'clock A. M.
and shall be closed at six o'clock P. M. and, in such polling
places, Judges of election, when acting as such, shall be com-
pensated at the rate of f 10. 00 a day and no more.

Wherever possible, the provisions hereof shall be construed
in harmony with existing laws. If any of the provisions hereof
shall be judicially declared to be invalid or unconstitutional,
the remaining provisions hereof shall not be thereby affected,
but shall remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted., That nineteen new sec-
tions be and they are hereby added to said Article 33 of
Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
Edition 1924, title "Elections, " sub-title "Voting Machines, "
said new sections to follow immediately after Section 224D
of said Article 33 (as enacted by Chapter 532 of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1935), to be known as Sections
224-E to 224-W, inclusive, of said Article 33, and to read as
follows:

224-E. As used in this sub-title:

(1) The word "ballot-labels" shall mean the cards, paper,
or other material, containing the names of offices and candi-
dates and statements of questions to be voted on;

(2) The word "diagram" shall mean an illustration of the
official ballot, when placed upon the machine, showing the
names of the parties, offices, and candidates, and statements
of the questions, in their proper places, together with the voting
devices therefor, and shall be considered a specimen ballot;

(3) The word "question" shall mean a statement of such
constitutional amendment or other proposition as shall be sub-
mitted to a popular vote at any election;

(4) The words "vote indicator" shall mean the levers, knobs
or handles attached to the face of the machine by means of
which the voter indicates his choice of candidates or decision
of question;

(5) The words "candidate counters" and "question counters"
shall mean the counters on which are registered numerically
the votes cast for candidates, and on questions, respectively;

(6) The words "public counter" shall mean a counter or
other device which shall, at all times, publicly indicate how
many times the machine has been voted on at an election;