SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       879

(6)    Be capable of adjustment by election officers, so as to permit
each voter at a primary election to vote only for the candidates seek-
ing 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;

(7)    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;

(8)    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
assisting in voting as prescribed by law;

(9)    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;

(10)    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
number of voters who have operated the machine during said period
of voting;

(11)    Have a protective counter, or other device, the register of
which cannot be reset, which shall record the cumulative total num-
ber of movements of the operating mechanism;

(12)    Be provided with a lock or locks, by means of which, imme-
diately after the polls are closed, or the operation of the machine for
an election is completed, all movement of the registering mechanism
is absolutely prevented while the machine is locked;

(13)    Be provided with a screen, hood or curtain, which shall
conceal the actions of the voter while voting;

(14)    Be constructed of material of good quality, in a neat and
workmanlike manner;

(15)    When properly operated, register or record correctly and
accurately every vote cast;

(16)    Be so constructed that a voter may readily learn the method
of operating it;

(17)    Be safely transportable;

(18)    Be so constructed and controlled that, during the progress
of voting, it shall preclude every person from seeing or knowing the
number of votes registered for any candidate, and from tampering
with any of the registering mechanism.

16-4. Ballots and Ballot Labels: In general.

(a) Each board shall provide ballots for every election in which
any voter in the county or city shall participate, which shall contain:

(1) The name of every candidate who has filed or has been nomi-
nated in accordance with the provisions of this Article; except that
in lieu of the names of candidates for the office of elector of President