ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 463

298. All primary elections held under the provisions of
this article shall be by precincts or districts, as the case may
be, and at every such election the polls shall be open for such
time as may be prescribed by the State central committee or
the county executive committee ordering said primary election,
precinct meeting or other meeting.

299. Every primary election shall be presided over and
conducted by officers to be selected in the manner prescribed
by the usages, rules, regulations or customs of the party
holding such primary.

300. Every ballot box used at such primary elections shall
be so placed in a window or elsewhere that the voters may
conveniently see every ballot received by the judges and deposi-
ted in the ballot box, and no screen or other obstruction to
such view of any ballot by the voters shall be allowed.

301. The rooms used for polling places at such elections
shall be of a reasonable size, and there shall be allowed at all
times in the polling places, one challenger for each ticket,
the judges and clerks, and after the election is closed, any can-
didate or persons designated by him and such other persons
as in the judgment of the judges of elections, it may be proper
to admit to guarantee the fairness of the count, shall be entitled
to be present during the counting of the ballots.

302. No primary election shall be held unless at least two
weeks' notice of the holding of the same shall be given by pub-
lication at least once a week in one or more papers published
in the said county.

303. At any time before or during any such primary elec-
tion held for the purpose herein provided, the candidates, or
a majority thereof named on any ticket to be voted for at such
primary election, shall have the right to name one person as
challenger at the polls for such election; and said challen-
gers and each of them shall be entitled to be present at such
election in the room occupied as the polling place, at least
fifteen minutes before any ballot box shall be opened, until
the close of the election and the signing of the proper returns.

304. If at any primary election, precinct meeting or other
meeting in Baltimore county of any political party, held for
the purpose of selecting one or more candidates for public
office to be voted for by the people of said county, or for the
purpose of selecting delegates to any convention of such politi-
cal party, any person shall knowingly personate and vote, or
attempt to vote, in the name of any other person, whether
living or dead or fictitious, or vote or attempt to vote more than