360                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                  Ch. 174

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

By repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 27-2(a-1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 27-4

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 2-8 (b) and 24-26 (a) of Article 33
— Election Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

2-8.

(b) (1) After the opening of the polls, [no
judge shall] A JUDGE MAY NOT absent himself [therefrom]
until all the ballots cast [shall] have been counted and
the returns completed. [If in] IN case of absolute
necessity, IF any judge in attendance [shall be] IS
compelled to absent himself, he shall appoint some fit
person of the same political party as himself to act in
his stead until his return, having first administered to
[such] THE substitute the same oath as he himself has
taken.

(2) A JUDGE WHO IS APPOINTED TO SERVE IN A
DISTRICT, WARD, OR PRECINCT OTHER THAN THE ONE IN WHICH
HE IS REGISTERED TO VOTE AND WHO CHOOSES TO VOTE SHALL
CAST HIS VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT PURSUANT TO § 27-1(A).

24-26.

(a) [At] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 2-8 (B) (2)
AND 27-1(A), AT every election [hereafter] held in this
State, every employer, whether a body corporate, firm or
individual, shall allow any employee who is a registered
voter in the State a period not to exceed two hours
absence from work on election day, if the employee does
not have two hours of continuous off—duty during the time
the polls are open, with pay, to vote, and the employee
shall furnish to the employer proof that he has voted.