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of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume). The informality of any appli-
cation, including any made in accordance with said Section 245, or failure
to include therein all the data prescribed above shall not invalidate the
application and said municipality upon a written or printed request for
an absentee ballot signed by the applicant shall honor the same if it is
possible to ascertain from the request or otherwise the name of the indi-
vidual seeking the ballot and the address to which the ballot is to be sent.

An absentee resident shall be entitled to be sent an absentee ballot as
hereinabove provided only if the application therefor is received by said
municipality at least ten days before the date of an election.

Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, any form of application
for the right or means to vote as an absentee resident or to secure an
absentee ballot or official war ballot executed in accordance with any Act
of Congress providing for absentee voting, if signed by any absentee resi-
dent, shall be treated by said municipality as an application for a city
absentee ballot.

Section 3. BE IT RESOLVED by the authority aforesaid that the
Charter of said municipal corporation as set forth in Sections 737-796 of
the Code of Public Laws of Carroll County (Everstine, 1965) as amended,
be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto follow-
ing immediately after Section 741 and to be known as Section 741A.

741A. Absentee registration and re-registration and ballots for physically
disabled voters and others.

Registration:

(A) Any qualified voter whose physical disability confines him to a
hospital or causes him to be confined to a bed and permanently prevents
him from being present to register or re-register with the Board of
Registration, shall be allowed to register or re-register by absentee cer-
tification. Such absentee certification may be issued by the Board of Regis-
tration upon personal application and proof satisfactory to said Board of
the permanent physical incapacity of the registrant to personally register
or re-register with said Board. Such registration or re-registration shall
be done within said municipality.

Any person who will become twenty-one years of age during an elec-
tion year and on or prior to the date of an election, if otherwise entitled
to be registered as a qualified voter, shall be entitled to register to vote at
any time provided for registration of voters during such election year
and, when so registered, shall be entitled to vote at such election; the date
of birth of any such registrant shall be shown under the heading of
"Remarks" in the registry record.

Absentee Voting:

A qualified voter, who, on the occurrence of any municipal election
may be unavoidably absent from said municipality for whatever reason
on the day of election, may vote as an absentee voter. A voter who is other-
wise qualified and who is also a full-time and regular student in a bona-fide
school, college, hospital, or similar institution and who is unavoidably
absent from such municipality in which he is registered, as the case may
be, on the occurrence of any election, also may vote as an absentee voter.

Any qualified voter whose physical disability which confines him to a
hospital or causes him to be confined to bed and prevents or will prevent
him from being present and personally voting at the polls on any election