Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                     1251

to see or ascertain how a voter votes, or how he has voted. The said
judges, or one of them, shall inspect the face of the machine at
frequent intervals, to see that the ballot-labels are in their proper
places, and that the machine has not been injured or tampered with.

(e)  Counters Not to be Exposed. During an election, the door or
other covering of the compartment containing the counters of the
machine, shall not be unlocked or opened, or the counters exposed,
except by the action of the proper custodian of voting machines for
good and sufficient reason, statement of which shall be made in
writing and signed by him and attested by the signatures of the
judges of election, or except upon the written order of the Board of
Supervisors of Elections for good and sufficient reason which shall
be stated in the order.

(f)  Voter's Certificate. Except in Baltimore City, one of the judges
of election shall issue to each voter found upon the registers to be
qualified, an official voter's certificate on a form provided by the
Board of Supervisors of Elections. Said judge shall enter thereon a
number corresponding with said voter's number on the poll book,
the name of the voter, and the original signature or initials of said
judge, written in ink. At the same time the other judge of election
shall enter on the poll book the number and name of the voter to
whom such voter's certificate was issued. The two judges of election
not in charge of the registers shall be in charge of the operation of
the voting machines, and they shall permit no one to register a vote
upon any voting machine unless the voter applying to them shall
produce and surrender to them or one of them an official voter's
certificate, duly signed or initialed by the judge. In the event any
voter shall leave the voting machine booth without registering a vote,
the judge holding such voter's certificate shall endorse a memorandum
of that fact on the certificate of such voter, and sign his name.

127. Instruction and Assistance in Voting. (a) Instruction. The
judges of election, with the aid of the diagrams authorized in Sec-
tion 125(c)(1) of this Article and the mechanically operated model,
shall instruct each voter, before he enters the voting machine booth,
regarding the operation of the machine, and shall give the voter
opportunity personally to operate the model.

(b) Assistance to Disabled Persons. No voter shall be permitted
to receive any assistance in voting at any election, unless he shall
declare under oath to the judges of election that by reason of blind-
ness or physical disability he is unable to read the names upon the
ballot-labels or to see the machine, or without assistance, to prepare
it for voting, or enter the voting machine booth without assistance.
Upon making and filing with the judges such affidavit, the voter
shall retire to a voting machine, with a person RELATED BY
BLOOD OR MARRIAGE whom the voter may select or with two
judges of opposite political parties, and then and there said person
or one of said judges in the presence of the other shall operate the
machine as such voter shall direct. The only assistance which it
shall be lawful for said person or said judges to give such voter
is to move the vote indicator as the voter, without prompting or
suggestion from them or either of them, shall direct. No voter
shall be assisted under this section until a majority of the judges
of election shall be convinced of the truth of the fact stated in such
affidavit. No assistance in operating such machine shall be given