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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 37

CHAPTER 37

(House Bill 550)

AN ACT concerning

Election Code — Absentee Ballot

FOR the purpose of changing the time period for making
application to vote as an absentee voter in certain
cases; and making style changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 33 — Election Code

Section 27-2(a) and (a-1) and 27-4 (a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 27-2(a) and (a-1) and 27-4 (a) of
Article 3 3 — Election Code, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (19 71 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 33 — Election Code

27-2.

(a) Any qualified voter whose physical disability
or confinement in or restriction to an institution
prevents or will prevent him from being present and
personally voting at the polls on any election day shall
also be entitled to vote as an absentee voter under this
subtitle. Such voter shall make application for an
absentee ballot as provided in § 27—4 of this article.
The application shall be filed in the office of the board
of supervisors of elections not later than [seven (7)
days prior to] THE TUESDAY PRECEDING any election. Upon
receipt of the application the board shall mail to the
voter entitled thereto an absentee ballot. In all other
respects, absentee voting as provided for in this section
shall be similar to and controlled by the applicable
procedure provided by law for absentee voting.

(a-1) [Within seven (7) days of] AFTER THE TUESDAY
PRECEDING an election and on the day of the election
prior to the time the polls close, any person registered
and otherwise qualified to vote may apply for an
emergency absentee ballot if[,] he is notified after the
time for making application for an absentee ballot that,
as a condition of his employment, he is required to be
absent from the county or Baltimore City where he is