508                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 216

20-2 of this article., The presidential electors of the candidates for
President and Vice-President who receive the highest number of
votes shall be declared to be elected as said electors, and shall be
deemed so appointed. The said election shall in all respects be con-
ducted as other elections, except as otherwise provided in this article,
and the returns thereof made and canvassed as hereinbefore directed.

21-1.

(a)    Elections of United States Senators from Maryland, except
in cases of election for the purpose of filling any vacancy or vacan-
cies in said office hereinafter provided for, shall be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in the year 1964,
and on the same day and month in every sixth year thereafter, and
also on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the
year 1968, and on the same day and month in every sixth year there-
after.

(b)    Places of voting for said United States Senators at such
election shall be at the places of voting for members of the House of
Representatives of the United States throughout the State, including
all the congressional districts thereof.

(c)    In the event of a vacancy in said office of Senator aforesaid,
however said vacancy may arise, the Governor of the State shall
make a temporary appointment of a Senator who shall serve until the
people shall fill such vacancy by nomination and election as in this
article provided.

(d)  It shall be the duty of the Governor of the State, within ten
days after such vacancy shall have been made or become known to
him, to issue a proclamation accompanied by a writ of election
declaring and providing that at the next ensuing primary election
held under the provisions of this article for the nomination of
candidates for the House of Representatives, candidates for said
unexpired portion of the term of said office of Senator in which
such vacancy has occurred, shall be nominated in the manner afore-
said. The election of Senator to fill such unexpired portion of said
term shall take place, in the manner aforesaid, at the next ensuing
general congressional election.

(e)  With respect to all elections of United States Senators both
for full terms and to fill vacancies for unexpired portions of terms,
every person qualified to vote for [members of the House of Dele-
gates] those persons seeking federal office shall be qualified and
entitled to vote for United States Senators.

27-1.

The following persons may vote as an absentee voter under this
subtitle:

(a) Any qualified voter who may be unavoidably absent from the
[State of Maryland] county or Baltimore City where he is regis-
tered to vote for any reason on any election day; and

[(b) Any qualified voter who as a condition of his employment
may be required to be absent a distance of greater than seventy-five
(75) miles from his place of residence on any election day; and]