13.62 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of this Act, there shall be provided 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 statement of such
party affiliation does not bind him to vote for the candidate of
such party at 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 affiliations, the word "Declined" shall be writ-
ten opposite his name in such column so that there shall be writ-
ten in such column opposite the name of every registered voter,
either his party affiliation or the word "Declined." Each and
every voter as he appears at the first primary election at which
he votes subsequent to the passage of this Act shall, before he
is permitted to vote at said primary, state to which party he is
inclined and to which party he desires to have himself recorded
as affiliated, and the Board of Registers, then sitting as Judges-
of Election, shall thereupon and at once enter in the column
provided for party affiliations the name of the political party to
which the voter is inclined and with which he desires to affiliate,
and in said primary 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.

There shall be annually a sitting of the registration officers,
in and throughout Dorchester County on the day which shall
be the fifth day before the day of the primary election (ex-
cluding the day of the primary election in the computation of
said fifth day prior thereto), on which day all of said registra-
tion officers shall sit from 8 o'clock A. M. until 8 o'clock P. M.
in Dorchester County, for the purpose of revising the regis-
tration lists by adding new voters, making transfers, etc., so
that fair and full opportunity may be afforded to all voters, duly
qualified, to take part in the primary elections.

No person or voter after having had his affiliation registered
shall be permitted to make any change in his party affiliation
unless the same shall be made at least six months prior to the
day of the primary election.