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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="9-209" title_number="9" title_name="Voting" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Ballots">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Within 2 days after the content and arrangement of the ballot are certified under § 9–207 of this subtitle, a registered voter may seek judicial review of the content and arrangement, or to correct any administrative error, by filing a sworn petition with the circuit court for Anne Arundel County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The circuit court may require the State Board to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>correct an administrative error;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>show cause why an administrative error should not be corrected; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>take any other action required to provide appropriate relief.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If an administrative error is discovered after the ballots have been publicly displayed, and the State Administrator fails to correct the administrative error, a registered voter may seek judicial review not later than the 62nd day preceding the election.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A judicial proceeding under this section shall be conducted in accordance with the Maryland Rules, except that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the case shall be heard and decided without a jury and as expeditiously as the circumstances require; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an appeal shall be taken directly to the Supreme Court of Maryland within 5 days of the date of the decision of the circuit court.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Supreme Court of Maryland shall give priority to hear and decide an appeal brought under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection as expeditiously as the circumstances require.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
