LLOYD LOWKDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

right to vote for such candidate at the approaching election,
the Circuit Court for Frederick County may, by order, require
said Supervisors of Elections to correct such error or to show
cause why such error, should not be corrected.

270 B R. The form and arrangement of the ballot shall be

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as follows: All ballots shall contain the name of every can-
didate whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot
has been certified, to and tiled according to the provisions of
this Article and not withdrawn in accordance herewith, and
shall contain no other names. The names of candidates
nominated by each party shall be grouped together upon each
ballot, and each group shall be. headed by the name of the
political party by which the candidates comprised in said group
were placed in nomination, as described in the certificate of
nomination. When the name of a political party is given in
connection with the name of a candidate nominated, as pro-
vided in section 270 H H of this Article, it shall be stated on
the ballot ; but if there shall have been any nomination for the
same office by a convention or primary election claiming the
same party name, duly certified, as herein provided, the word
"independent" shall precede the party name if the candidate
is nominated under the provisions of the said section 270 H H.
If same party name or emblem shall be claimed on behalf of
nominations made by more than one convention or primary
election and duly certified, as aforesaid, the officers by whom
the ballot is to be prepared, or a majority of them, shall deter-
mine which nominees are justly entitled to the party designa-
tion or emblem, and the word "independent" shall precede
the party name of the other group or groups of nominees, and
the emblem shall be omitted from such "independent" group
or groups. Said groups shall be printed on said ballots in col-
umns parallel to each other, the group representing the party
polling the largest number of votes for Governor in the State
at the last gubernatorial election being placed first or at
the left of said groups; the group representing the party
polling the next largest number of votes at said election being
placed second ; and the group representing the party polling
the next largest number of votes at such election third ; and
so on. Candidates of parties not having made nominations
at the last gubernatorial election and other independent candi-
dates, shall be arranged in like groups, according to the date
of filing the certificates of nomination. If a candidate is
named for the same office on two or more certificates of nomi-
nation, his name shall be placed in each of the several appro-

Form and
arrange-
ment of
ballots.