THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   951

in which constitutional amendments and other questions shall ap-
pear on the election ballot.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 68 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Elections", sub-title "Elections", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

68. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections
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 proper officers in the manner
herein provided by such political party organization or body of in-
dividuals, 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 in understandable language of every constitu-
tional amendment or other question to be submitted to the vote of
the people at any election, and it is the legislative intent that such
statement or summary shall correctly inform the voter of the effect
of the proposed constitutional amendment or other question. [, but
it shall be sufficient in any case to print on the ballot the legislative
title unless the Act proposing the Constitutional Amendment or
other question specifically provides 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 Supervisors of
Elections, according to the provisions of this Article shall not be
cast or counted in any election except as hereinafter provided. Noth-
ing in this Article contained 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 in 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 possession of the Super-
visors of Elections at least four days before election day, and a cor-
rect list of the names of the candidates thereon with the designation
of the offices for which the persons named thereon are condidates
shall be furnished on demand 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 25, 1955.