CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	Sec. 3. If any person shall give, or	See Section 2.07, Conduct of Elections, p. 11.
	offer to give, directly or indirectly, any
	bribe, present, or reward, or any promise,
	or any security, for the payment, or the
	delivery of money, or any other thing, to
	induce any voter to refrain from casting his
	vote, or to prevent him in any way from
	voting, or to procure a vote for any
	candidate, or person proposed, or voted for,
	as the Elector of President and Vice-
	President of the United States, or Repre-
	sentative in Congress, or for any office of
	profit or trust, created by the Constitution
	or Laws of this State, or by the Ordi-
	nances, or Authority of the Mayor and City
	Council of Baltimore, the person giving, or
	offering to give, and the person receiving
	the same, and any person who gives or
	causes to be given, an illegal vote, knowing
	it to be such, at any election to be here-
	after held in this State, shall, on conviction
	in a Court of Law, in addition to the
	penalties now or hereafter to be imposed
	by law, be forever disqualified to hold any
	office of profit or trust, or to vote at any
	election thereafter. But the General As-
	sembly may in its discretion remove the
	above penalty and all other penalties upon
	the vote seller so as to place the penalties
	for the purchase of votes on the vote buyer
	alone.
	Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the
	General Assembly to pass Laws to punish,
	with fine and imprisonment, any person,
	who shall remove into any election district,
	or precinct of any ward of the City of Balti-
	more, not for the purpose of acquiring a
	bona fide residence therein, but for the
	purpose of voting at an approaching elec-
	tion, or, who shall vote in any election
	district, or ward, in which he does not
	reside (except in the case provided for in
	this Article), or shall, at the same election,
	vote in more than one election district, or
	precinct, or shall vote, or offer to vote,
	in any name not his own, or in place of
	any other person of the same name, or shall
	vote in any county in which he does not
	reside.
	Sec. 5. The General Assembly shall pro-
	vide by Law for a uniform Registration of
	the names of all the voters in this State,
	who possess the qualifications prescribed in
	this Article, which Registration shall be
	conclusive evidence to the Judges of election
	of the right of every person, thus registered,
	to vote at any election thereafter held in

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