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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 500

ballot, voting machines shall be used, provided, however,
that if the number of candidates submitted for vote at
the primary elections is too large for the practical use
of voting machines, the said board of supervisors of
elections shall supply paper ballots in the usual form
for use in voting for such offices. A DULY REGISTERED
VOTER MAY [[NOT]] VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN THE NUMBER OF
NOMINEES FOR WHICH THERE ARE OFFICES TO FILL. The
eight persons among those whose names are duly placed on
primary ballots as candidates for nomination to the
county Board of Education at large, in those years when
elections shall be held for four members at large to the
county Board of Education and six persons among those
whose names are duly placed on primary ballots as
candidates for nomination to the county Board of
Education at large in those years when elections shall be
held for three members at large to the county Board of
Education, who receive the largest number of votes at
said primary election, shall be the duly nominated
candidates for election to the respective county Board of
Education offices. The board of canvassers for
Montgomery County shall, upon the completion of its
canvass of voters at said primary election, determine who
are the duly nominated candidates for election to the
respective Board of Education offices under the
provisions of this section and shall certify the same to
the board of supervisors of elections of Montgomery
County. Any person who has qualified under this section
as a candidate for nomination to the county Board of
Education, and who shall by virtue of the provisions of
this section, be required to run in a primary election,
may on or before sixty—five (65) days preceding the
primary election as herein provided, in a writing signed
by him and acknowledged before an officer duly authorized
to take acknowledgments under the laws of Maryland,
notify the board of supervisors of elections of
Montgomery County that he desires to withdraw as a
candidate for such nomination. The petition of
candidacy as to any candidate so withdrawing shall,
thereupon be and become void and the name of such
candidate shall not be placed on the ballot for such
primary election. If the withdrawal of any candidate
reduces the nominees at large to eight in those years
when elections shall be held for four members to the
county Board of Education at large or to six in those
years when elections shall be held for three members to
the county Board of Education at large, then the board of
supervisors of elections shall certify such remaining
candidates as provided by subsection (b)(1) of this
section. IN THE EVENT THAT A DULY NOMINATED CANDIDATE
FOR ELECTION TO THE RESPECTIVE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
SHALL, FOR ANY REASON, [[CEASES]] CEASE TO BE A CANDIDATE
[[FOR ANY REASON]], THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHALL PLACE ON THE BALLOT FOR THE