1246                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 739

(c)  Permit each voter, at other than primary elections, to vote a
ticket selected from the nominees of any and all parties and from
independent nomination;

(d)  Permit each voter to vote at any election, for any person and
for any office for whom and for which he is entitled to vote, and to
vote for as many persons for an office as he is entitled to vote for,
including a substantial compliance with the provisions of Section 94
of this Article; and to vote for or against any question which appears
upon a ballot-label;

(e)  Preclude each voter from voting for more persons for any
office than he is entitled to vote for, and from voting for any candi-
date for the same office or upon any question more than once;

(f)  Be capable of adjustment by election officers, so as to permit
each voter at a primary election to vote only for the candidates seek-
ing nomination by the political party with which he is affiliated, if
he is affiliated with a political party and so as to preclude him from
voting for the candidates seeking nomination by any political party
with which he is not affiliated;

(g)  Permit each voter to change his vote for any candidate, or
upon any question appearing upon the ballot-labels, up to the time
he begins the final operation to register his vote, or indicates an in-
tention to register his vote;

(h) Permit and require voting in absolute secrecy, and shall be
so constructed that no person can see or know for whom any other
voter has voted or is voting, save a voter whom he has assisted
or is assisting in voting as prescribed by law;

(i) Have voting devices for separate candidates and questions,
which shall be arranged in separate parallel rows or columns, so
that, at any primary election, one or more adjacent rows or columns
may be assigned to the candidates of a party, and shall have parallel
office columns or rows transverse thereto;

(j) Have a counter, or other device, to be known as a "public
counter", the register of which is visible from the outside of the
machine, which shall show during any period of voting the total
number of voters who have operated the machine during said period
of voting;

(k) Have a protective counter, or other device, the register of
which cannot be reset, which shall record the cumulative total num-
ber of movements of the operating mechanism;

(l) Be provided with a lock or locks, by means of which, im-
mediately after the polls are closed, or the operation of the machine
for an election is completed, all movement of the registering mechan-
ism is absolutely prevented;

(m) Be provided with a screen, hood or curtain, which shall con-
ceal the actions of the voter while voting;

(n) Be constructed of material of good quality, in a neat and work-
manlike manner;

(o) When properly operated, register or record correctly and ac-
curately every vote cast;