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2379
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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AN ACT concerning
Election Boards — Constitutional Amendments,
Referenda, and Other Questions
FOR the purpose of permitting the election board of each
county and Baltimore City to mail to the household
of each registered voter in the county or Baltimore
City before the election a specimen ballot; and
providing for a certain exception.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 33 - Election Code
Section 2—10
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1976 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 2-10 of Article 33 - Election
Code, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1976 Replacement
Volume and 1976 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:
Article 33 - Election Code
2-10.
Each board shall give public notice of the time and
place of all elections in each precinct. Such notice
snail be given in newspapers of general circulation; in
the discretion of the board, notice may also be given by
handbills set up in such public places in each precinct
as the board may determine. THE ELECTION BOARD OF EACH
COUNTY AND BALTIMORE CITY AT THEIR DISCRETION MAY MAIL AT
LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE EVERY ELECTION A SPECIMEN BALLOT TO
THE HOUSEHOLD OF EACH REGISTERED VOTER IN THE COUNTY OR
BALTIMORE CITY AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE EVERY ELECTION.
(a) [In the counties] EXCEPT IN BALTIMORE CITY OR
IN THOSE COUNTIES WHICH MAIL SPECIMEN BALLOTS, each board
THE BOARD OF EACH COUNTY EXCEPT THOSE IN WHICH A SPECIMEN
BALLOT IS MAILED PURSUANT TO THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH AND
SUCH BALLOT INCLUDES THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE ELECTION,
shall give notice during the calendar week preceding any
election of the time and place of the election by
advertisements, if some can be procured at the lowest
available local rate for commercial advertising, in at
least two newspapers of general circulation published in
the county, except that in those counties where there is
only one newspaper published which is a weekly of general
circulation, then in the weekly newspaper.
(1) In Dorchester County, the notices shall
be in three newspapers published therein (one of which, if
possible, shall be of the principal minority party).
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