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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="9-301" title_number="9" title_name="Voting" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Absentee Voting">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle applies to every election governed by this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The State Board shall prescribe all forms required to comply with:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any requirements of relevant federal law.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The State Board and each local board shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>notwithstanding the use of the term “absentee” in this article, refer to absentee ballots as “mail–in ballots” and absentee voting as “mail–in voting” in all communications with voters and the general public;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>refer to absentee ballots that are delivered to a voter by the Internet as “print–at–home ballots” in all communications with voters and the general public; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>include in public communications regarding “mail–in voting” a statement that “mail–in voting” is referred to as absentee voting in the Maryland Constitution, the Annotated Code of Maryland, and the Code of Maryland Regulations.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
