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all parties and from independent nomination and to write-in the
name of a candidate not included on the official ballot;

16-4.

(b) Not less than [twenty] twenty-five days before any election
the form and arrangement of the ballots to be used in the election;
showing the offices, names of candidates, constitutional amendments
and questions thereon, shall be prepared by the board and made
available for inspection by any candidate whose name shall appear
thereon or the official representative of any political party having a
candidate on the ballot. Following five days of public display, no
court shall entertain a suit or grant injunctive relief to any party
seeking to challenge the form or arrangement of the ballots.

16-5.

(a)  In primary elections, [The] the names of candidates for every
office shall be arranged alphabetically on the ballots according to
their surnames, under the designation of the office; except that the
names of candidates of each political party for President and Vice-
President shall be grouped together, with the party name at the
right of the surnames under the designation "Electors for President
and Vice-President," and arranged alphabetically in the order of the
surnames of the presidential candidates. The names of candidates of
each political party for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall
also be grouped together. The use of nicknames, titles, degrees, or
other professional designations on the ballot is absolutely prohibited.

(b)  All candidates for office shall as far as possible be placed in
one column on the ballots; but when the names to be printed on paper
ballots are over thirty-six, or on voting machines when the required
number of spaces assigned to each party or office are exhausted,
another column may be added in which names shall be printed. When
two or more columns are used the same number of names, so far as
possible, shall be printed in each column. The initial letters of the
given or Christian names of the several candidates in each column
shall be printed directly beneath each other in a vertical line, and the
initial letter of the respective party designations of said several can-
didates shall be printed directly beneath each other in a vertical line.

(c)   The titles of offices may be arranged horizontally or vertically
on the ballots, with the names of candidates for an office arranged
longitudinally under or transversely opposite the title of his office.
The titles of offices shall be so arranged that: (1) there shall first
appear those titles of offices for which the voters of the entire State
or of an entire congressional district may vote as follows: President
and Vice-President, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Comptroller,
Attorney General, U. S. Senator, Representative; (2) there shall next
appear the titles of candidates for judge of the circuit courts of the
several counties, the courts of Baltimore City and the Court of Special
Appeals or the Court of Appeals of Maryland there shall also appear
the titles for the office of mayor of the City of Baltimore and county
executive of the respective counties; (3) there shall next appear the
titles of offices in the General Assembly of Maryland; and (4) there
shall next appear the titles of offices for which the voters of the
respective counties or Baltimore City may vote, including, but not
limited to, the offices of county commissioners or county councilmen,