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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

How to vote.

270 B B. Any person desiring to vote shall give his name,
and, if requested so to do, his residence, to one of the ballot
clerks to be designated for this purpose by the judges, who
shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct tone
of voice, and if such name is found by the judges of election
upon the list of registered voters, the voter shall be allowed to
enter the space enclosed by the guard rail, as above provided ;
a ballot clerk shall give him one, and only one, ballot; before
handing the ballot to the voter the ballot clerk shall place his
own initials immediately beneath the fac-simile signature, and
so that the same will plainly appear when the ballot shall have
been folded, as required by the next section; besides the elec-
tion officers, not more than four voters in excess of the number
of voting shelves or compartments provided, shall be allowed
in said enclosed space at one time.

How to vote,

270 CC. On receipt of his ballot, the voter shall forthwith
and without leaving the enclosed space, retire alone to one of
the voting shelves or compartments, and shall prepare his bal-
lot, by making in the appropriate margin or place a cross-mark
(X) opposite the name of the candidate of his choice for each
office to be filled; and in case of a question submitted to the
vote of the people, by making in the appropriate margin or
place a cross (X) against the answer which he desires to give ;
in making such a ballot any voter shall be at liberty to use or
copy any unofficial sample ballot which he may chose to mark
or to have had marked in advance of entering the polling
place or booth, to assist him in marking the official ballot, but
no voter shall be at liberty to use or bring into the polling
place any unofficial sample ballot printed upon paper the color
and quality now required to be used for the printing of the
ballots under this article; before leavin'g the voting shelf or
compartment, the voter shall fold his ballot, without displaying
the cross-marks thereon, in the same way it was folded when
received by him, and so that the initial of the ballot clerk
shall appear, and he shall keep the same so folded until he has
voted; he shall vote in the manner provided in this article,
leaving the enclosed space, and shall hand his ballot to the
judge of election with the official endorsement uppermost; he
shall mark and deposit his ballot without undue display, and
shall quit said enclosed space as soon as he has voted; no voter
shall be allowed to occupy a voting shelf or compartment for
more than five minutes, in case of all such shelves or compart-
ments are in use, and other voters are waiting to occupy the
same; no voter waiting his turn or other persons shall over-