1466                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 636

of Supervisors of Elections shall provide the means whereby all
duly registered voters of Montgomery County, irrespective of party
affiliation, may vote for said nominees for the County Board of
Education at a primary election to be held at the time and place for
holding the primary elections of the political parties. In taking the
ballot, voting machines shall be used, provided, however, that if the
number of candidates submitted for vote at the primary elections is
too large for the practical use of voting machines, the said Board of
Supervisors of Elections shall supply paper ballots in the usual form
for use in voting for such offices. [The two persons among those
whose names are duly placed on a primary election ballot as candi-
dates for nomination to the County Board of Education for any
council district, who receive the largest number of votes and the
four] The eight persons among those whose names are duly placed
on primary ballot as candidates for nomination to the County Board
of Education at-large, in those years when elections shall be held for
four members at-large to the County Board of Education and six
persons among those whose names are duly placed on primary ballots
as candidates for nomination to the County Board of Education at-
large in those years when elections shall be held for three members
at-large to the County Board of Education, who receive the largest
number of votes at said primary election, shall be the duly nominated
candidates for election to the respective County Board of Education
offices. The Board of canvassers for Montgomery County shall, upon
the completion of its canvass of voters at said primary election,
determine who are the duly nominated candidates for election to the
respective Board of Education offices under the provisions of this
section and shall certify the same to the Board of Supervisors of
Elections of Montgomery County. Any person who has qualified
under this section as a candidate for nomination to the County Board
of Education, and who shall by virtue of the provisions of this section,
be required to run in a primary election, may on or before sixty-five
(65) days preceding the primary election as herein provided, in a
writing signed by him and acknowledged before an officer duly
authorized to take acknowledgments under the laws of Maryland,
notify the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Montgomery County
that he desires to withdraw as a candidate for such nomination. The
petition of candidacy as to any candidate so withdrawing shall,
thereupon, be and become void and the name of such candidate shall
not be placed on the ballot for such primary election. If the with-
drawal of any candidate reduces [the nominees of any council dis-
trict to two, or] the nominees at-large to [four] eight in those years
when elections shall be held for four members to the County Board
of Education at-large or to six in those years when elections sha