COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
		Section 2.03. Voters in Municipal Elections.
		A municipal corporation may prescribe by
		law qualifications for voters in its municipal
		elections, subject to any procedures and
		standards that the General Assembly may
		prescribe by law. No municipal corporation
		may prescribe an age requirement of more
		than nineteen years or a residence require-
		ment of more than one year.
	.' -	Section 2.04. Voters in United States En-
		claves.
		A person shall not be deemed ineligible to
		vote in any election solely by reason of the
		fact that he resides on land over which the
		United States has been ceded jurisdiction.
		Section 2.05. Property Qualifications.
		Ownership of an interest in property shall
		not be required as a condition for voting ex-
		cept to the extent that nonresident property
		owners may be permitted by law to vote in a
		municipal election. Ownership of an interest
		in property shall not be required as a condi-
		tion for holding any elective or appointive
		office of this State or of any unit of local
		government.
	Sec. 1A. The General Assembly of	Section 2.07. Conduct of Elections.
	Maryland shall have power to provide by	The General Assembly by law shall define,
	suitable enactment for voting by qualified	residence, establish a uniform system of per-
	voters of the State of Maryland who are	manent registration of voters, provide for
	absent at the time of any election from	the nomination of candidates, regulate the
	the ward or election district in which they	time, place, and manner of elections, provide
	are entitled to vote and for voting by	for the uniform administration of elections,
	other qualified voters who are unable to	provide for absentee voting, insure secrecy of
	vote personally by reason of physical dis-	voting, and protect the integrity of the elec-
	ability which shall confine said voters to a	tion process. A municipal corporation may
	hospital or cause them to be confined to	prescribe by law election dates and proce-
	bed, and for the manner in which and the	dures for the administration and regulation
	time and place at which such absent voters	of its municipal elections, subject to any
	may vote, and for the canvass and return	procedures and standards that the General
	of their votes.	Assembly may prescribe by law. The General
		Assembly shall provide by law for the super-
		vision and uniform administration of laws
		enacted by the General Assembly pursuant to
		this section.
	Sec. 2. No person above the age of	Section 2.06. Disqualifications.
	twenty-one years, convicted of larceny, or other infamous crime, unless pardoned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter be en- titled to vote at any election in this State;	The General Assembly may prescribe by law disqualifications from voting in any elec- tion by reason of mental incompetence or conviction of serious crime, and shall provide
	and no person under guardianship, as a	by law for the removal of these disqualifica-
	lunatic, or, as a person non compos mentis,	tions.
	shall be entitled to vote.

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