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3245
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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AN ACT concerning
Election - Ballots
FOR the purpose of prohibiting an elector from voting for
more than an allotted number of candidates from a
specific county if there are provisions for the
election of only a certain number of delegates from
that specific county and legal requirements that the
delegates live in that specific county.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 33 — Election Code
Section 16-5(d)
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 16-5(d) 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Volume and 1976 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed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:
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Article 33 — Election Code
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16-5.
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(d) The party designation of each candidate,
properly separated from his name, shall be included on
all ballots at any election; provided, however, that
[such] THE party name shall consist of one word only. In
addition, the name of each candidate for public or party
office for which the voters of the entire State or more
than one county or legislative district [thereof] may
vote, shall be identified by the county or city in which
said candidate resides. IF THERE IS A PROVISION FOR THE
ELECTION OF DELEGATES WHO ARE BY LAW REQUIRED TO LIVE IN
A SPECIFIC COUNTY AND ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DELEGATES
MAY BE ELECTED FROM THAT COUNTY, AN ELECTOR MAY NOT CAST
A VOTE FOR MORE THAN THAT NUMBER OF CANDIDATES FROM THAT
SPECIFIC COUNTY. The ballots shall be [so] arranged SO
that exact uniformity, to the extent practicable, will
prevail as to size and face of printing of all
candidates' names and party designation. The names of
all candidates for judge of the circuit courts for the
several counties or of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City, or for judge of the Court of Special Appeals or the
Court of Appeals, shall be placed on the ballots without
any party label or other distinguishing mark or location
which might directly or indirectly indicate the party
affiliation of any such candidate.
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1977.
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