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of an executive or managing committee, of any other party, and
to facilitate its being promptly detected if so cast, the ballots
of the several parties, shall be printed upon opaque paper of
different colors, to be determined by the several Boards of
Supervisors of Elections; and until after the next general regis-
tration in the counties, every person offering to vote at a pri-
mary election shall be required to state to which party he be-
longs and which party's candidate he intends to vote for at the
State, city or county election, and every qualified person offer-
ing to vote in the several counties in the State at a primary
election shall be permitted to vote in the primary election of
that party to which he belongs and which party candidates he
intends to vote for at the State or county election, and in Balti-
more city every qualified person offering to vote at a primary
election shall be permitted to vote in the primary election of
that party only with which he shall appear to be affiliated.
160F. The books of registry shall be furnished to the judges
.at each polling place by the respective Boards of Supervisors
of Election, and shall be used at such elections in the same way
as they are now used at municipal, county or general elections
held under the provisions of said Article 33. In the books of
registry now in use, or which may be hereafter prepared for use
in Baltimore city, a column, headed "Voted at Primary Elec-
tion," shall be used; in each column such word "Voted" or
letter "V" shall be hereafter entered at the primary election at
which such registry shall be used, and opposite th'e name of each
person voting. In -the several counties, until new books of
registry shall be required to be prepared, according to the exist-
ing law, the present books of registry shall be used, and the
judges shall therein make a column, headed "Voted at Primary
Election of ......," and enter in like manner therein the words
"Voted" or letter "V." Persons arriving at the age of twenty-
one years after the closing of the. next preceding registration
and entitled to be registered as qualified voters, shall be entitled
to vote at the primary election, upon proving under oath, to
the satisfaction of a majority of the judges of election, their
right to registration in the precinct at which they shall claim
the right to vote.
160G. Official ballots shall be prepared for such primary elec-
tions in Baltimore city and in the several counties, respectively,
by the said several Boards of Supervisors of Elections for said
city and said several counties, respectively, as is now provided
by said Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws, except
as herein otherwise provided for, and said several Boards of
Supervisors of Elections shall print or cause to be printed on
said official ballots the names of all candidates for office to be
voted for, and for delegates to any convention, or for party
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