384 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 120

IS UNAVOIDABLY ABSENT FROM THE COUNTY OR BALTI-
MORE CITY IN WHICH HE IS REGISTERED, AS THE CASE
MAY BE, ON THE OCCURRENCE OF ANY PRIMARY OR GEN-
ERAL OR SPECIAL ELECTION, ALSO MAY VOTE AS AN
ABSENTEE VOTER UNDER THIS SUBTITLE.

(b) A qualified voter desiring to vote at such election as an ab-
sentee voter shall make application in writing to the board of super-
visors of elections of the city or the county, as the case may be, for
an absentee ballot, not later than the twentieth (20) day before
such election and such application shall contain an affidavit, which
shall set forth: (1) His name and residence address, including the
street and number, if any, or rural route, if any; (2) that he is
qualified voter of the ward or election district in which he resides;
(3) in case he voted at the preceding election, the ward or election
district where he so voted; (4) that he expects in good faith to be
unavoidably absent from the [State of Maryland], county or Balti-
more City in which he is registered, as the case may be, on the day
of the next primary or general or special election for whatever
reason, specifying it. Printed forms of application for absentee
ballots distributed in accordance with Public Law 296, 84th Con-
gress (69 Stat. 584), shall be accepted as an application for an
absentee ballot; provided such form application shall disclose therein,
under remarks or otherwise thereon, all the information required by
the above provisions, although not necessarily listed in the same order.

237.

(b) The ballot envelope shall be of sufficient size to contain the
State absentee ballot. Printed on the face of the ballot envelope shall
be the following oath:

"Oath of Absentee Resident
I.......................... do hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a voter

legally qualified to vote in the............................election to be held

(Primary, general or special) (Date)

on ..................... that I am legally registered in................precinct of the

............................district or ward in............................County or city, as

stated in my application for said ballot; that I will be unavoidably
absent from my residence because on the day of such election I will
be absent from [the State of Maryland]............................. County (or

Baltimore City), AS THE CASE MAY BE for a good cause, or that
I am disabled pursuant to Section 235 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland; that I have not qualified nor do I intend to vote
elsewhere than as set forth herein; that the within ballot was by me
marked secretly, folded and enclosed and sealed in this Ballot En-
velope; that I am not now disfranchised from voting by reason of any
offense committed against the laws of Maryland.

(Absentee voter must sign his name.)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this................day of ................19....

(Notary Public or other person au-
thorized to administer oaths)"