2770

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 564

[(7)] (8) The several boards may appoint such numbers
of temporary judges as the boards may deem necessary to
adequately and promptly carry out the provisions of this section.

[(e)] (F) (G) Any absentee ballot voted for a person who
has ceased to be a candidate shall not be counted for such
candidate but such vote shall not invalidate the remainder of
such ballot.

[(f)](G) (H) If an absentee ballot envelope is delivered
to the wrong board, such board shall immediately send said ballot
envelope unopened, unmarked and unchanged in any' way to the
proper board.

[(g)] (H) (I) (1) Whenever any board shall determine from
proof or investigation that any person who has marked and
transmitted or deposited in person with the board an absentee
ballot, whether under act of Congress or the provisions of this
subtitle, has died before election day, said board shall not
count the ballot of the said deceased voter, but it shall be
preserved by the board for the time required by federal law, and
may 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.

(2) 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)] (I) (J) (1) 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 the ballot shall be placed by the board in a
secure place to which the public has no access.

(2)  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.

(3)  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.                                                                                                 

(4) Absentee ballots may be marked by any kind of
pencil or ink.