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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 820

Administrative Board of Election Laws and to the clerk of
the circuit court for the county [or to the clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be,] who
shall enter the same of record.

17-7.

(a) Whenever it shall be made to appear by affidavit
filed within the time period stated in § 13-1 of this
article that errors have occurred in the determination of
the board of canvassers of any county or city in the State,
the circuit court of the county [or the Superior Court of
Baltimore City] may by order require the board of canvassers
to correct such errors or show cause why such corrections
should not be made; and in the event of the failure of the
board of canvassers to make such corrections, or show cause
as aforesaid, said court may compel the board of canvassers
by writ of mandamus to correct such errors, and if the board
of canvassers shall have made its determination and
dissolved, the court may compel it to convene for the
purpose of making such corrections. For the purpose of
making such corrections as the court shall order, the
meeting of the board of canvassers shall be deemed a
continuation of its regular session, and the statements and
certificates shall be made and filed as the court shall
direct, and so far as the same shall vary from the original
statements and certificates, the statements and certificates
made under the order of court shall stand in lieu thereof,
and shall in all cases have the same effect as if corrected
statements had been a part of the original statement
required by law.

19-2.

All cases of contested elections of any of the officers
not provided for in the Constitution or in §§ 19-1 and 19-4
of this article, shall be decided by the judges of the
several circuit courts, each in his respective [circuits, or
by the Superior Court of Baltimore City, in the City of
Baltimore] CIRCUIT. If the court finds that mechanical
failure, fraud or negligence on the part of any election
official or his agent materially contributed to the outcome
of that particular election, such that would affect the
final result, the court by order may declare null and void
all or part of that particular election, and the court may
further order that all or part of that particular election
be reheld.

19-3.

Each judge of the circuit court [and of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City] may adopt such modes of proceeding
and adjudging costs in cases of contested elections as to
him shall seem most satisfactory, but the rules of taking
testimony in such cases shall be the same as those which