HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 951

(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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

24-8.

Every judge who shall wilfully exclude any vote duly
tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is
lawfully entitled to vote at such election; or who shall
wilfully receive a vote from any person who has been duly
challenged in relation to his right to vote at such election
without exacting from such person such oath or other proof
of qualification as may be required by law; or who shall
wilfully omit to challenge any person offering to vote whom
he knows or suspects to be not entitled to vote, and who has
not been challenged; or WHO SHALL DISTRIBUTE ANY TYPE OF
LISTING OF PERSONS WHO HAVE OR HAVE NOT VOTED AT AN
ELECTION; OR who shall wilfully refuse to permit inspection
of the public counter of any voting machine, or if ballot
boxes are used, to open and show the ballot box to be empty
prior to the opening of the polls; or who shall permit any
barricade or obstruction of any kind to be interposed, so
that all who desire cannot constantly see such voting
machine or ballot box, shall upon conviction thereof be
punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for
not less than three months, nor more than two years.

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

Approved May 14, 1979.

CHAPTER 290

(Senate Bill 894)

AN ACT concerning

Judges of Elections - Residence

FOR the purpose of changing the residency requirement for a
judge of election.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 - Election Code

Section 2-7(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland