1516 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

does not vote any ballot delivered to him shall, before leaving
the polling place, return such ballot to the judge from whom
he received it, and said returned ballot shall be retained as
if said ballot has been spoiled. When anyone claiming to be
a person whose name appears upon the registers shall make
application for a ballot, his right to vote at that election may
be challenged, but shall not be determined until after he has
marked his ballot and delivered it to the judge at the ballot
box. The person challenging shall assign his reason therefor,
and one of the judges shall thereupon administer to the person
offering to vote an oath to make true answers to questions,
and if he shall take said oath, he shall be questioned by the
judge or judges touching said cause of challenge, and he may
also be questioned by the person challenging him in regard
thereto, and if a majority of the judges are of opinion that he
is the person so registered, his vote shall be received accord-
ingly. No one who is not registered as a qualified voter of the
precinct shall be entitled to vote or to receive a ballot, but
no vote shall be rejected because of an error in the spelling of
the voter's name or because of the wrongful omission or addi-
tion of one or more initials of his middle name or names, or
because the voter gives the initials, one or more of his Christian
or given name or names, instead of his full name or one or more
of his Christian or given name or names, instead of the initial
or initials thereof, or because of an error in the number of his
residence on the register, provided a majority of the judges
are satisfied that the person offering to vote is the identical
person who is registered, and that he intended to register his
true name and residence. Unless a majority of the judges are
of the opinion that the person so challenged is entitled to vote,
the judge at the ballot box shall endorse upon his ballot the
word "rejected", and return the same still folded, and with
its coupon attached, to the judge holding the ballots, and the
clerks of election shall draw a line through the name and num-
ber of said person as entered on their poll books, and write
thereafter the word "rejected", or if for any other reason a
person who has received a ballot shall leave the polling place
without voting, they shall likewise draw a line through his
name and number on the poll books, and write thereafter the
word "did not vote". All ballots returned to the judge holding
the ballots shall be immediately strung by him upon a cord or
wire, provided for the purpose, still folded and with the cou-
pons still attached, and each endorsed upon the back thereof
with the words "spoiled", or "rejected", or "not voted", as the
case may be, and all such ballots shall be returned to the
Supervisors of Elections, as hereinafter provided.

In those precincts of Baltimore City in which voting ma-
chines shall be used, when the right of any person to vote shall