Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                  1301

(8)  The Absentee Voting Law provides that anyone who wilfully
signs any false application or oath, or who wilfully does any act
contrary to the terms and provisions of the Absentee Voting Law
with intent to cast an illegal vote or to aid another in doing so, or
who wilfully violates any of the provisions 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 both, in the discretion of the Court.

(9)  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
direction 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 enclosed in the Return Envelope—not in the
Ballot Envelope.

"The undersigned, at the request and in accordance with the direc-
tion of........................................, who is unable to mark his ballot and

(Name of Voter)

sign his oath because of...................................... has marked for such

(State Reason)

voter the ballot with which this affidavit is enclosed and has filled
in for and in such voter's name the oath on the Return Envelope.
Witness to action of Officer.

(Signature, Rank and Serial No.)          (Signature of Officer)

(Signature, Rank and Serial No.)         (Rank and Serial Number)

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this................................day of

............................................,19............

Commissioned Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer,
not below the rank of Sergeant, or Petty Officer
—other than person marking the ballot.

Rank and Serial No."

(If in Merchant Marine attesting officer may be a Master, First
Officer, Chief Engineer or Purser.)

(If the above form is used, detach it, fill in the blanks, and
enclose in the Return Envelope.)

250. Printing Ballots, (a) Time Required. The several Boards
shall have printed Absentee Ballots in the form provided for in this
sub-title, together with envelopes and instructions, not less than 55
days prior to an election, and shall begin mailing said Ballots, envel-
opes and instructions to Absentee Residents immediately after the
same have been printed.