122 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

more names are marked for any office than there are persons
to be voted for, such ballots shall not be counted for such can-
didate or delegates, or other persons to be voted for, as the case
may be; but the whole ballot shall not for that reason be
rejected for candidates for other offices or positions, if any,
and a ballot marked by any other than a black pencil shall not
be counted. No vote shall be counted in any such county for
any person, after whose name a cross-mark made with a black
pencil does not appear on the ballot when voted.

160I. Nominations for Mayor, Comptroller, President of the
Second Branch City Council and members of the City of Balti-
more shall be made by direct vote of the respective political
parties at primary elections to be held in all respects according
to the aforegoing provisions, applicable to primary elections
in Baltimore city, except that the day for holding the same
shall be the first Tuesday of April of the year in which the
municipal elections in said city of Baltimore are to be held on
a different day from the general election. At every general
registration held in Baltimore city, and in each and every
county of the State, subsequent to the passage of this Act, there
shall be provided in the registration books a distinct column
headed "Party Affiliations," and the board of registers shall
enter in this column the name of the political party, if any, to
which the voter is inclined and with which the voter desires
to have himself recorded as affiliated. It shall be the duty of
the board of registry to explain to each voter that the state-
ment of such party affiliation does not bind him to vote for the
candidate of such party of any given election; also that he has
the right to decline to state any party affiliations; but that no
one who is not recorded upon the registry as affiliated with a
particular political party will be qualified to vote at subsequent
primary elections of said political party. Whenever a voter
declines to state his party affiliation, the word "Declined"
shall be written opposite his name under such column, so that
there shall be written in such column opposite the name of
every registered voter, either his party affiliations or the word
"Declined." And in all primary elections thereafter held, any
person so registered as affiliated with a given political party
shall have the right to vote the official ballot of that party and
of no other; and at any intermediate registration subsequent
to the close of the next general registration, such voter may
appear before the board of registry and, upon his identity being
established to the satisfaction of the majority of the board of
registry, to make, alter or strike out any entry in the column
headed "Party Affiliations," opposite his name in the registry;