162 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 94

of the Board of Supervisors of Election for good and sufficient
reason which shall be stated in the order.

224-L.

(a) During the thirty days next preceding an election, the
Board of Supervisors of Election shall place on public exhi-
bition, in such public places, on such days, and at such times
as they may deem most suitable for the information and in-
struction of the voters, one or more voting machines, contain-
ing the ballot-labels, and showing the offices and questions to
be voted upon, the names and arrangements of parties, and,
so far as practicable, the names and arrangement of the candi-
dates to be voted for. Such machine or machines shall be
under the charge and care of a person competent as custodian
and instructor. No voting machine, which is to be assigned for
use in an election, shall be used for such public exhibition
and instruction, after having been prepared and sealed for
the election.

(b) During such public exhibition and instruction, the
counting mechanism of the voting machine shall be concealed
from view, and the doors, or cover concealing the same, shall
be opened, if at all, only temporarily, and only upon written
authorization from the Board of Supervisors of Election.

(c) Prior to any election, the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tion may cause copies of any diagram or diagrams, required
to be furnished with voting machines at polling-places, to be
made, either in full size or in reduced size, and to be posted,
published, advertised or distributed among the voters in such-
manner as the said Board may deem desirable.

224-M.

(a) The judges of election shall, with the aid of the dia-
grams herein authorized, and the mechanically operated model,
instruct each voter, before he enters the voting machine booth,
regarding the operation of the machine, and shall give the
voter opportunity personally to operate the model.

(b) No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance
in voting at any election, unless he shall declare under oath
to the judges of election that by reason of blindness or physical
disability he is unable to read the names upon the ballot-
labels or to see the machine, or, without assistance, to pre-
pare it for voting, or enter the voting machine booth without
assistance. Upon making and filing with the judges such
affidavit, the voter shall retire to a voting machine, with two
of the judges of opposite political parties, and then and there
one of said judges in the presence of the other shall operate
the machine as such voter shall direct, the voter himself naming
one by one the candidates for whom he desires his vote to be