1504 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

57. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions of each county and of the City of Baltimore to provide
ballots for every election for public officers held under this
Article in which any voters within the county or said city shall
participate, except in those precincts in which voting machines
shall be used, and cause to be printed on the ballots the name
of every candidate whose name has been certified to or filed with
the proper officers in the manner herein provided by such politi-
cal party organization or body of individuals, but the said
Supervisors shall not be required to print any name upon a
ballot if such name shall not have been certified to them at
least ten days before election day. Each ballot shall contain a
condensed statement of every constitutional amendment or
other question to be submitted to the vote of the people at any
election, but it shall be sufficient in any case to print on the
ballot the legislative title unless the Act proposing the Consti-
tutional Amendment or other question specifically pro-
vides the ballot title to be used. The Secretary of State
shall prepare and certify the form in which a Constitutional
Amendment shall appear upon the ballot. Ballots other
than those printed by the respective Boards of Super-
visors of Elections, according to the provisions of this
Article shall not be cast or counted in any election ex-
cept as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this Article con-
tained shall prevent any voter from writing on his ballot and
marking in the proper place the name of any person other than
those already printed for whom he may desire to vote for any
office, and such votes shall be counted the same as if the name
of such person had been printed upon the ballot and marked
by the voter. Any voter may take with him into the polling
place any written or printed memorandum or paper to assist
him in marking or preparing his ballot, except a facsimile of
the ballot to be voted. Ballots shall be printed and in posses-
sion of the Supervisors of Elections at least four days before
election day, and a correct list of the names of the candidates
thereon with the designation of the offices for which the per-
sons named thereon are candidates shall be. furnished on de-
mand by the Supervisors to the candidates or their authorized
agents. If any mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of
said Supervisors to correct the same without delay, and if said
Supervisors shall decline or refuse to make correction, then
upon the sworn petition of any qualified voter who would have
the right to vote for such candidate at the approaching election,
the Circuit Court for any county or one of the Judges of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may, by order, require said
Supervisors of Elections to correct such error or to show cause
why such error should not be corrected.