HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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then be destroyed, unless prior to that time the board is ordered
by a court of competent jurisdiction to keep the same for any
longer period. If at or prior to the time of such counting and
canvassing the board shall not have determined that the absentee
resident who marked a ballot had died before election day, said
ballot shall be counted, and the fact that said absentee resident
may later be shown to have been actually dead on election day
shall not invalidate said ballot or said election.

(h) If the board determines that the provisions for filling
out and signing the oath on the outside of the ballot envelope
have been substantially complied with and that the person signing
the voter's oath is entitled to vote under this subtitle in any
precinct of their respective county or city, as the case may be,
and has not already voted therein on election day, they shall
open the ballot envelope and remove the ballot therefrom and
[place it in a ballot box or ballot boxes prepared for that
purpose] THE BALLOT SHALL BE PLACED BY THE BOARD IN A SECURE
PLACE TO WHICH THE PUBLIC' HAS NO ACCESS. When any ballot
envelope is opened, the board shall enter in the appropriate
register the fact that the voter whose name appears thereon has
voted, using the initials "A.B." to indicate the vote has been by
absentee ballot. If there be more than one ballot in the ballot
envelope, all shall be rejected except when two elections are
held on the same day and a voter is voting in both elections and
the voter returns both absentee ballots in the ballot envelope
provided. Absentee ballots may be marked by any kind of pencil
or ink.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved March 8, 1984.

CHAPTER 3

(Senate Bill 915)

AN ACT concerning

Professional Football Sports - Sunday Play

FOR the purpose of permitting a professional football sports team
in this State to play a game at any time after a certain
time on Sunday; and repealing certain laws inconsistent with
this Act.