466 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

311. Each ticket, or the majority of the candidates whose
names appear on such ticket, or of such candidates on said
ticket who may be present, may select a clerk of election, who,
with the challenger, shall be entitled to be present in the poll-
ing room before the polls, are opened and until after the votes
are cast and counted. In case of contest not more than a bare
majority of the judges selected shall be supporters of any one
candidate or ticket. Any person excluding or attempting to
exclude such challenger or clerk from the polling room during
the time above set forth shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

312. Any person who shall canvass or electioneer within
one hundred feet of the polling place during any primary
election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion shall be fined not less than one nor more than one hun-
dred dollars.

313. There shall be a polling place in every precinct, and in
no case shall any election be held in any building, or in any
part of a building used as a saloon, pool room, billiard room
or bowling alley. No person shall be permitted to vote in any
precinct who is not a registered voter therein. The ballot
box shall be placed in a central and conspicuous position inside
the polling room. Not more than two voters shall be admitted
at any one time, and no other person except judges, clerks
and challengers; provided, however, the judges may admit one
or more persons, in their discretion, who desire to challenge
or object to any voter; such persons, after such objection is
decided, shall immediately retire. No person shall send or
bring any intoxicating liquors in any polling room at any
primary during the voting or counting of the ballots, under a
penalty of a fine of not less than five or more than twenty-five
dollars. Elections of the same political party in the several
districts shall be on the same day.

314. Before the next general registration of voters in Bal-
timore county it shall be the duty of the Supervisors of Elec-
tion in said county to furnish two registry books as provided
in section 15 of article 33, Code of Public General Laws,
except that in addition to the columns provided in the form
set forth in section 15 of said article, there shall be a column
headed "Party Affiliation, " which shall immediately precede
the column headed "Remarks, " in said form. And when any
person shall be registered at such general election, or at any
registration thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Board of
Registry to ask such person with which party he desires to
affiliate, and they shall at the same time explain to the voter
that such statement of party affiliation does not bind him to
vote for the candidates of any such party, but that no person