1552 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

or any other mark except the X mark or marks used to vote or
the name of a written-in candidate. Fold the ballot in the same
creases as before opening.

(b) Then enclose the ballot in the "Ballot Envelope" and
seal the same.

(c) After sealing the Ballot Envelope, you MUST, in the
presence of a witness fill in the blanks in the "Oath of Ab-
sentee Resident" on the Ballot Envelope and sign (DO NOT
PRINT) your name on the line indicated. You MUST then
swear to the Oath before the witness who MUST fill in the
date, sign HIS name and indicate HIS rank or official position
in the space provided. THE WITNESS MUST BE A COMMISSIONED

OFFICER, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER, NOT BELOW THE RANK OF
SERGEANT, OR PETTY OFFICER.

(d) It is absolutely necessary that the "Ballot Envelope"
contains nothing but one ballot marked by you.

(e) Enclose the "Ballot Envelope" in the "Return Envel-
ope", seal the "Return Envelope" and mail at once.

(f) The ballot may be marked and mailed at any time after
you receive it but it must be received by the Secretary of State
in time to be delivered by him to the appropriate Supervisors
of Elections not later than the closing of the polls on election
day. If it is not received prior to such closing, it will not be
counted.

(g) If, in any election other than a primary, you desire not
to vote for any of the candidates named for any office on the
ballot, you may write in, in the appropriate blank space on the
ballot, the name of the person of your choice for such office.

(h) The Absentee Voting Law provides that anyone who
wilfully signs any false application or oath, or who willfully
does any act contrary to the terms and provisions of the Ab-
sentee Voting Law with intent to cast an illegal vote or to aid
another in so doing, or who wilfully violates any of the pro-
visions of that Law or who applies for a ballot under any
other name than his own, shall, upon conviction, be subject to
a fine of $1, 000 or to imprisonment for not more than two
years, or to both, in the discretion of the Court.

(i) If any person eligible and desiring to vote is unable by
reason of sickness, wounds, injury or inability to read or write
to mark a ballot and sign the oath on the ballot envelope, any
commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, not below the
rank of sergeant, or petty officer, may, at the request and in
accordance with the directions of the voter, mark the ballot,
sign the name of the voter on the line provided for the voter's
signature, and complete the oath on the face of the ballot
envelope; and the following affidavit shall be executed and en-
closed in the Return Envelope—not in the Ballot Envelope.