120 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tions shall be cast, except as hereinafter provided for primary
elections, in the several counties of the State, counted and can-
vassed and the result of the election announced and certified in
Baltimore city and in each of the counties of the State, as now
provided by said Article 33 for elections held thereunder; and
the said primary elections shall be held and conducted and
determined in the manner and form provided by this Article
for general elections, and subject to all the regulations, require-
ments and provisions as prescribed by this Article for general
elections, in so far as the same are or may be applicable to
said primary elections and except as may be herein provided.
Challengers and watchers representing the candidates in any
said primary elections shall be allowed to be present at the
several voting places during the voting and counting of the
ballots, as provided in said Article 33, with respect to general
elections held thereunder. As each voter's name shall be
entered in the poll book, kept by the two clerks of election,
there shall be entered opposite his name the name of the party
whose candidate or candidates he voted for; provided, that in
primary elections to be held in the several counties of the State
the name or initials of the judge of election shall be placed
upon the official envelope, and the stub or coupon provided for
herein for such official envelope shall be filled out and handled
in every respect similar to the coupon provided for official
ballots at general elections for the State, and it shall not be
lawful for the judges or clerks of election to place their names
or initials, or any other matter, upon the official ballots; and
it shall be lawful for every person having the qualifications of
a voter for such primary elections under this Article in the
several counties of the State to have his official ballot pre-
pared before entering the proper polling place, but upon pre-
senting himself to the judges of elections as provided by this
Article, and it having been determined by such judges that he
is qualified to vote in such primaries, there shall be given him
by the proper election official a blank official ballot of the politi-
cal party in whose primaries he is entitled to vote, together
with an unsealed official envelope for the same party, as pro-
vided for herein; he shall thereupon retire to one of the booths
provided for the purpose, and shall there, with black pencil
and in the manner required by law, prepare such official ballot
for voting, or in the privacy of such booth he may exchange
such ballot for the official ballot or one of the official ballots
which be may have brought into such polling places with him,
previously prepared for voting, and while in such booth he
shall place the official ballot he desires to vote in the official
envelope so provided and seal the same; he shall then hand to
one of the judges of election the envelope so sealed containing