464                               Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 352

tions", sub-title "Verification of Votes on Voting Machines and Re-
lease of Such Machines", be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

121. The use of voting machines so constructed as to furnish a
printed or photographic record of the setting of the counters and
the numbers registered thereon by voting is hereby specifically au-
thorized, provided, that the machine is constructed to furnish at
least as many printed or photographic copies as the number of
return sheets required by Section 131 of this Article.

Every voting machine acquired or used [as above provided] in
accordance with this Article shall:

(a)   Provide facilities for voting for such candidates as may be
nominated and upon such questions as may be submitted;

(b)   Permit each voter, in one operation, to vote for all the candi-
dates of one party for presidential electors;

(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
seeking 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
intention 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 assist-
ing 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