18 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 3

Boards of Supervisors of Elections the name and description
of each person nominated for office.

The Boards of Supervisors of Elections shall not be re-
quired to print the name of any candidate upon any ballot
unless the provisions of this section have been complied with.

139. The Secretary of State shall open all Return Enve-
lopes, State and Federal, as soon as received by him, shall
withdraw therefrom the Ballot Envelopes and shall immedi-
ately transmit such Ballot Envelopes unopened, unmarked
and unchanged in any way, in packages sealed by him, to
the Board named on the outside of said State Return En-
velopes and to the appropriate Board disclosed by the address
of the Absentee Resident on the Federal Ballot Envelope.
The Secretary of State shall require each Board receiving
from him Ballot Envelopes to give him a receipt showing the
date of such delivery and the number of Ballot Envelopes de-
livered.

If a State or Federal Ballot Envelope is delivered to the
wrong Board, such Board shall immediately send said Ballot
Envelope' unopened, unmarked and unchanged in any way to
the proper Board.

All Return Envelopes, both State and Federal, received by
the Secretary of State after the date of any election, shall
be preserved by him for six months and then destroyed,
unless prior to that time he be ordered by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction to keep the same for any longer period.
The receipts given the Secretary of State by the several
Boards shall be also kept by him for the same period.

140. Upon receipt by a Board at any time prior to the
closing of the polls on election day of a State or Federal
Ballot Envelope from an Absentee Resident, said Board shall
forthwith determine whether such Absentee Resident is al-
ready registered as a voter. If such Absentee Resident is
registered, his Absentee Ballot shall be safely kept by the
Board and counted and canvassed at the proper time as in
this sub-title provided. If the Board shall determine that
such Absentee Resident is not registered or if the Board is
unable to determine whether such Absentee Resident is or is
not registered, said Board shall accept the information, set
forth in his duly executed oath on the said Ballot Envelope,
as prima facie- accurate and correct, and if such information
discloses that said Absentee Resident is (a) a citizen of the
United States, (b) will be twenty-one years or older on the
day of the election for which said ballot is offered, (c) has
been a resident of Maryland for a year preceding said elec-
tion, (d) has been a resident for 6 months preceding the day
of said election of the election district or ward in which
his residence in Maryland is located, and (e) is not dis-
qualified to vote by the commission of crime, said Board