MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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Elections — Verification of Voting Machines

FOR the purpose of requiring a local board of election
laws to certify in writing the verification of
voting machines and to provide a copy of a
certification of that verification at the time of
submitting certified copies of election returns; and
clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 17—4(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 17-4(a) of Article 33 - Election
Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 - Election Code

17-4.

(a)        (1)       Within ten days after each election,

each board as a part of its canvass shall verify the
votes cast on the voting machines.         In the case of

voting machines which have not provided a printed or
photographic record of the numbers registered on the
counters by voting, the board shall make a record of the
number of the seal and the number on the protective
counter, if one is provided, of each voting machine used
in each election precinct or district in each election;
it shall open the counter compartment of each [such]
machine and without unlocking [such] THE machine against
voting, shall verify the votes cast [thereon].

In the case of voting machines which have provided a
printed or photographic record of the numbers registered
on the counters by voting the board shall verify the
votes cast as shown by the printed or photographic record
pertaining to each [such] machine used in each election
precinct or district in each election.          Before making

any verification, the board shall give notice, in
writing, to the custodian of the voting machines and to
the chairman of the [State] central committee of each
party in the counties or in Baltimore City which shall
have nominated candidates for any general election or
shall have candidates for nomination at any primary
election. Each of the [said] chairmen [shall have] HAS
the right to appoint and designate two representatives
who [shall] each have the right personally to examine and
make a copy of the vote recorded on the machines.