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filed the statements provided for in Section 26-12 in accordance with
the schedule of reports in Section 26-11; and no officer authorized
by the laws of this State to issue commissions [or certificates] of
election shall issue a commission [or certificate] of election to any
person claiming to be elected to any such office, until copies of such
statements as aforesaid shall have been made and filed under oath,
by such person with such officer.

26-18.

(d)   In case such petition relates to the election of electors of
President and Vice-President of the United States, a Senator of the
United States, a Representative in Congress, or the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor or Attorney General, or a Senator or Delegate
to the General Assembly of Maryland, or a judge, or a clerk of a
court of law, or a register of wills, or a State's Attorney, the trial
judge or judges shall have no power to declare any such election to
be void. The judge shall file his findings, or, in a case where a jury
shall have been demanded, the finding or verdict of such jury as to
whether or not the successful candidate, or his agent or agents
acting for or on behalf of such candidate, engaged in prohibited
practices, with the State Administrative Board of Election Laws,
together with the transcript of the evidence. The State Administra-
tive Board of Election Laws shall thereupon submit the same to the
Governor of Maryland, when the election is for electors of President
or Vice-President of the United States, or for Attorney General of
the State; or when the election is for a Representative or Represen-
tatives in Congress, shall submit the same certified under the seal
of the State, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives; or when
the election is for Senator of the United States, shall submit the
same, certified under the seal of the State, to the President of the
Senate of the United States; or when the election is for a member of
the State Senate, shall submit the same to the President of the Senate
of Maryland; or when the election is for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor or Delegate to the House of Delegates of the General As-
sembly of Maryland, or a judge, or a clerk of a court of law, or a
register of wills, to the Speaker of the House of Delegates of Mary-
land; or when the election is for a State's attorney, to the judges
having criminal jurisdiction of the county and city wherein he shall
be elected.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That new Section 2-9 (e), to follow immediately after Section
2-9 (d) and new Section 26-11 (e), to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 26-11 (d) of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume), title "Election Code," subtitles "Elec-
tion Boards and Employees" and "Fair Election Practices" be and
they are hereby enacted to read as follows:

2-9.

(e)   The offices of each board shall be opened from 9 A. M. to
9 P. M. on the fifth Monday prior to any election to provide for voter
registration.

26-11.

(e) The provisions of this section shall apply to all committees and
treasurers for candidates for public or party office located outside