1656 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 765

subdivide or otherwise re-establish precinct or polling place
boundaries for the purpose of establishing polling places
best suited, in the judgment of the said Board of Super-
visors of Election, for the use of voting machines; provided,
that at least one voting machine shall be furnished for each
unit for four hundred voters and an additional machine for
every additional part of such unit. In polling places where
voting machines are used, the elections in such polling
places shall be conducted by the four judges of election,
and in such polling places no clerks of election shall be
appointed. In such polling places, judges of election, when
acting as such, shall be compensated at such rate as is now
or may be hereafter provided by law.

After the polls are closed, the Judges of Election shall
make four duplicate statements of the result of the canvass,
which shall be promptly delivered, respectively, to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore County, the Board
of County Commissioners of Baltimore County, the Regis-
ter of Wills of Baltimore County and the Board of
Supervisors of Election of Baltimore County. The keys
of the machines shall likewise be delivered to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court.

In primary elections in Baltimore County the ballot labels
used in the voting machines in said County shall be printed
on materials of such different color for each political party
as may be determined by the Board of Supervisors of
Election of said County.

In the event that the number of names or the number
of questions submitted for vote at any election is too large
or the practical use of voting machines, then the Board of
Supervisors of Election shall supply paper ballots in the
usual form for use in voting for such excess offices and
questions as the Board of Supervisors of Election shall
deem available, such excess offices to be selected from those
of the smallest political divisions.

The Board of Supervisors of Election may appoint such
custodian or custodians for the voting machine as the said
Board shall deem necessary, whose duty it shall be to pre-
pare the machines for election purposes.

The voting machines and the keys thereof, when not in
use, shall be stored at such place or places, in such manner
and on such terms as the Clerk of the Circuit Court may
determine under the supervision and direction of the Board
of County Commissioners.

On or before the thirtieth day preceding an election, the
Board of Supervisors of Election shall mail to the Chair-
man of the County Committee of each political party, which
shall be entitled under existing law to participate in pri-