BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                            1235

repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code
16-5.

(d) The party designation of each candidate, properly
separated from his name, shall be included on all ballots at
any election; provided, however, that 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 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 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, AND FOR A COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION for [for judge] AND THE NAMES OF INCUMBENT
JUDGES of the Court of Special Appeals or the Court of
Appeals[,] AT AN ELECTION FOR CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE [or for
a county board of education,] 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] THE candidate OR JUDGE.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)

of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended,___or

enacted to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

17-3.

(a) The board of canvassers, upon being duly
organized, shall open all the original statements of votes
cast, general returns, tally sheets delivered or transmitted
to them, and shall canvass and add up the votes and make
abstracts or statements thereof in the following manner, as
the case may require: All votes for Governor shall be on one
sheet; in like manner, all votes for other State officers
shall be on another sheet; all votes for presidential
electors, on another sheet; ALL VOTES FOR AND AGAINST
CONTINUANCE OF AN APPELLATE JUDGE IN OFFICE, ON ANOTHER
SHEET; all votes for judges of OTHER courts, on another
sheet; all votes for Senators to the General Assembly, on
another sheet; all votes for Delegates to the General
Assembly, on another sheet; and all votes for any other
officer, on a separate and appropriate sheet; all votes for
or against any proposition which may be submitted to a vote