HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(I)    HE HAS DETERMINED IN HIS SOLE
DISCRETION THAT THE CANDIDATE'S CANDIDACY IS GENERALLY
ADVOCATED OR RECOGNIZED IN THE NEWS MEDIA THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED STATES OR IN MARYLAND, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
NATIONAL PARTY RULES AND

(II)  THE CANDIDATE HAS FILED A NOTARIZED
AFFADAVIT WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, NOT LATER THAN 70
DAYS BEFORE THE DATE SET BY LAW FOR THE PRIMARY ELECTION,
STATING THAT HE IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE; HOWEVER, A
CANDIDATE MAY EXECUTE AND FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
NOT LATER THAN 70 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE SET BY LAW FOR THE
PRIMARY ELECTION, A NOTARIZED AFFADAVIT STATING WITHOUT
QUALIFICATION THAT HE IS NOT AND DOES NOT INTEND TO BECOME
A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE IN THE MARYLAND PRIMARY ELECTION;
OR

(2) By making the payment required and by filing
with the State Administrative Board of Election Laws, a
petition in the form prescribed by the State Administrative
Board of Election Laws which shall contain the signatures of
not less than 400 of the registered voters within each
congressional district, at least 53 70 days preceding the
date set by law for the primary election. Nothing in this
section shall require compliance with § 7-1.]

(I) A NOTARIZED AFFIDAVIT STATING THAT HE
IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE; AND

(II) THE REQUIRED FILING FEE.

[(3)] (2) The Secretary of State shall

establish a procedure for the Democratic presidential

primary through which votes may be cast as uncommitted to
any presidential candidate.

[(4)] (3) Notwithstanding any other provisions
of this article, whenever any person who has been nominated
in any presidential primary election, in a writing signed by
him and acknowledged before a notary public, notifies the
officer or board with whom the certificate of candidacy, or
petition for nomination, or name is required to be filed by
this article, within 18 days after the final filing date
established in 4A-3 of this article that he desires to
withdraw as a candidate for the nomination, his name shall
be withdrawn and the name of any person so withdrawing shall

not be printed upon the ballots to be used at the

presidential primary election. The filing of a valid

certificate of withdrawal of candidacy is a final act of

withdrawal; and a person who files a certificate of

withdrawal may not reinstate his candidacy, unless the time
limit for the filing of candidacies has not expired. No
filing fees shall be refunded to persons who withdraw in
accordance with the section, subject, however, to § 4A-7 of
this article. [Nothing in this section shall apply to a