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1454 LAWS OF MARYLAND [Ch. 355
several candidates [in each column] shall be printed, IF
COLUMNS ARE USED, directly beneath each other in a
vertical line, and, IF ROWS ARE USED, DIRECTLY ACROSS
FROM EACH OTHER ON THE SAME HORIZONTAL LINE, [the initial
letter of the) THE respective party designations of
[said] THESE several candidates shall be printed, IF
PAPER BALLOTS OR PUNCHCARDS ARE USED, directly beneath
each other [in a vertical line], AND, IF VOTING MACHINES
ARE USED, TO THE LEFT OR ABOVE.
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(c) Each board shall also cause to be printed [on
light cardboard or heavy-sized paper,] two or more copies
of the form of the ballot [provided] TO BE USED for each
[voting] PRECINCT POLLING place at each election therein,
TO BE in type of [the same] SUITABLE size [, which shall
be called] AND DESIGNATED AS "specimen ballots" [; and
the same number of copies of the form of the ballot
label, printed on similar material in type of the same
size shall be furnished for each voting place at which
voting machines shall be used],
16-7.
(d) On the morning of [said] EACH election, BEFORE
THE VOTING BEGINS, the boards shall cause to be
conspicuously posted in each PRECINCT polling place
[said] THE cards of instruction and specimen ballots [,
and one of said cards of instruction shall be fixed in
each booth or voting compartment, and the said]. CARDS
OF INSTRUCTION AND specimen ballots shall ALSO be
conspicuously displayed Tin said polling room and] on the
outside of the building wherein [said] THE voting shall
take place. [Not less than one of said cards shall be
placed inside the curtain of each voting machine, and not
less than one of each of the same shall be securely and
conspicuously posted on the outside of the building in
which the polls are to be held, before the voting
begins, in such position that the same may be easily
examined by the public. ]
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.
Approved April 30, 1974.
CHAPTER 356
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