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(1)   Any qualified voter who may be unavoidably absent from the
State of Maryland for any reason on any municipal election day;

(2)   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 municipal election day; and

(3)   Any qualified voter who is a full-time and regular student in a
bona fide school, college, hospital or similar institution and who is unavoid-
ably absent from the City of Rockville; and

(4)   Any qualified person as defined in subsection (b) of this Sec-
tion.

(b)   Voting by ill and disabled persons.

(1)   Application and medical certificate; procedure for voting. Any
qualified voter whose physical disability 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 municipal election
day shall also be entitled to vote as an absentee voter under this subsection.
Such voter shall make application for an absentee ballot as provided in sub-
section (d) of this Section and in addition shall obtain a certificate from a
duly licensed physician of the State of Maryland. The certificate shall state
that the voter is mentally competent to vote in elections in this State, and
that because of illness or injury which confines him to a hospital or causes
him to be confined to bed, the voter is now, or will be, prevented from
voting personally at the election. The certificate shall be received and filed,
together with the application, in the office of the Board of Supervisors of
Elections not later than ten (10) days prior to any election. Thereafter the
Board shall mail to the voter entitled thereto an absentee ballot. In all
other respects, absentee voting as provided for in this section shall be sim-
ilar to and controlled by the applicable procedure provided by law for ab-
sentee voting.

(2)   Assistance in marking ballot, etc. Any otherwise qualified voter
who is blind, physically disabled or who has impaired vision and is for one
of these reasons unable to mark his absentee ballot and sign the required
oath, may be assisted in voting by any person selected by the voter. Any
person rendering assistance pursuant to this subsection shall execute the
certification set forth in subsection (h) (8) of this section.

(c)   Elections in which absentee voter may vote.

This subsection applies to elections for all candidates, charter amend-
ments and other questions at any election held in any year.

(d)     Applications for absentee ballots.

[(1)] Required; contents. A qualified voter desiring to vote at any
election as an absentee voter shall make application in writing to the
Board for an absentee ballot, which application must be received not
later than ten (10) days before the election. The application shall contain
[an affidavit, which shall set forth] the following information:

(i) The voter's name and residence address, including the street and
number, if any, or rural route, if any;

(ii) That the person is a qualified voter at the residence address
given;

(iii) If the person voted at the preceding election, the residence ad-
dress from which he voted; and