Maryland Regulations § 33.11.05.07 Ballot Rejection - Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot
Regulation Text
A.
The local board shall reject a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot if:
(1)
The Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot was not timely received;
(2)
The voter failed to sign the oath accompanying the Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot;
(3)
The local board determines that the Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot is intentionally marked with an identifying mark that is clearly evident and placed on the ballot for the purposes of identifying the ballot;
(4)
The voter was required to submit personal identification information under COMAR
33.11.02.07
B
but failed to submit that information before the absentee ballot canvass began, in which case the ballot shall be treated as a provisional ballot properly applied for and canvassed insofar as possible under the procedures in COMAR
33.16.05.05
B
,
33.16.05.06
B
, and 33.16.06;
(5)
The Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot was submitted by an overseas voter who is not an absent uniformed services voter and was submitted from within the United States; or
(6)
The local board counted the voter's State absentee ballot.
B.
In a general election, the local board may not reject a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot or a vote on a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot solely because the absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter wrote in the name of a political party, in which case the ballot or vote on the ballot shall be counted as a vote for the candidate affiliated with political party written by the voter on the ballot.
History
Regulations .07 adopted as an emergency provision effective February 1, 2000 (27:6 Md. R. 637); adopted permanently effective April 17, 2000 (27:7 Md. R. 709); amended effective
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