COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	Section 2.08. General Elections.	Art. XV, sec. 7. All general elections in
	A general election shall be held in every	this State shall be held on the Tuesday
	even-numbered year on the first Tuesday after	next after the first Monday in the month
	the first Monday in November. State officers	of November, in the year in which they
	shall be elected at the general election in	shall occur.
	1970 and every fourth year thereafter, except that judges may be elected in any even-num- bered year. County officers shall be elected at	ARTICLE XVII. QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS.
	the same time as state officers unless other-	Section 1. All State officers elected by
	wise prescribed by the General Assembly by	qualified voters (except judges of the
	law or by the instrument of government of a	Circuit Courts, judges of the Supreme
	county. If members of any public body serve	Bench of Baltimore City, judges of the
	overlapping terms, an election may be held	Court of Appeals and judges of any inter-
	every two years for those members then to	mediate courts of appeal), and all county
	be elected.	officers elected by qualified voters, shall hold
		office for terms of four years, and until
		their successors shall qualify.
		Sec. 2. Elections by qualified voters for
		State and county officers shall be held on
		the Tuesday next after the first Monday
		of November, in the year nineteen hundred
		and twenty-six, and on the same day in
		every fourth year thereafter.
		Sec. 3. All State and county officers
		elected by the qualified voters shall hold
		office for terms of four years.
		Sec. 11. The purpose of this Article is to
		reduce the number of elections, by providing
		that all State and county elections shall
		be held only in every fourth year, and at
		the time now provided by law for holding
		congressional elections; and to bring the
		terms of appointive officers into harmony
		with the changes effected in the time of
		the beginning of the terms of elective of-
		ficers; and the administrative and judicial
		officers of the State shall construe the
		provisions of this Article so as to effectuate
		that purpose. For the purpose of this Article
		only the word "officers" shall be construed
		to include those holding positions and
		other places of employment in the State
		and county governments whose terms are
		fixed by law, but it shall not include any
		appointments made by the Board of Public
		Works, nor appointments by the Governor
		for terms of three years.
		Sec. 13. In the event of any inconsistency
		between the provisions of this Article and
		any of the other provisions of the Con-
		stitution, the provisions of this Article shall
		prevail, and all other provisions shall be
		repealed or abrogated to the extent of such
		inconsistency.
	Section 2.09. Pluralities.	Art. XV, sec. 4. If at any election
	The candidates receiving the highest num-	directed by this Constitution, any two or

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