MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           3595

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. No person shall be certified as

a__candidate who is subject to the authority of the Board

of Education.

(c) The board of supervisors of elections of
Montgomery County shall provide for the election of
members of the Board of Education as herein provided.
EXCEPT FOR ANY ELECTION AT WHICH THE USE OF
ELECTRONICALLY TABULATED PUNCHCARD BALLOTS HAS BEEN
AUTHORIZED BY THE STATE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF ELECTION
LAWS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 33, SECTION 16A-1 OF THIS CODE,
[Provisions] PROVISIONS shall be made for use of voting
machines, or, in the alternative, for the use of paper
ballots under the conditions herein prescribed. The
names of all candidates who have been duly nominated
under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section
for election to the several Board of Education offices
shall, except in the case of death, be placed on the
ballot. The four persons among the eight in those years
when elections shall be held for four members to the
county Board of Education at large and three persons
among the six in those years when elections shall be held
for three members to the county Board of Education at
large, whose names are placed on the ballot as candidates
for election to the county Board of Education at large
who receive the largest number of votes at said election,
shall be declared elected for the respective Board of
Education offices. All voting for the county Board of
Education members, either in a primary election or in a
general election, shall be conducted on a nonpartisan