HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               1059

AN ACT concerning

Elections - Records from Voting Machines

FOR the purpose of requiring that a printed or photographic
record of the setting of the counter and the numbers
registered thereon taken from each voting machine and
the envelope containing that and other information be
sent to certain officials.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 16-16(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 33 - Election Code

16-16.

(d) The return sheets shall be signed by each of the
judges. If any judge shall decline to sign such return, he
shall state his reason therefor in writing, and a copy
thereof signed by himself, shall be enclosed with such
return. Each of the return sheets shall be enclosed in an
envelope, [which] ALONG WITH A PRINTED OR PHOTOGRAPHIC
RECORD OF THE SETTING OF THE COUNTER AND THE NUMBERS
REGISTERED THEREON FROM EACH MECHANICAL VOTING MACHINE WHICH
FURNISHES PRINTED OR PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS. THE ENVELOPE
shall then be sealed and each of the judges shall write his
name across the fold of the envelope.

(1)  One of the [duplicate return sheets]
ENVELOPES shall be directed to the clerk of the circuit
court of the county or of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, as the case may be; and

(2)  One to the county commissioners or county
council of the county or to the mayor of the City of
Baltimore, as the case may be; and

(3)  The ENVELOPE CONTAINING THE general return
sheet, or tally sheet, shall be directed to the board.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 14, 1979.