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<chapter num="08" heading="Challenging Voters" title_num="33" subtitle_num="07">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Scope.">
    <text>This chapter applies to accredited and non-accredited challengers or watchers.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Grounds for Challenge.">
    <text>A challenger may challenge an individual's right to vote only if the challenger has a reasonable basis for asserting that the individual seeking to vote is not the registered voter that the individual claims to be.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Challenge Record.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>In General. If a challenge is made to a voter's identity and the challenged individual does not present any of the forms of identification specified in Election Law Article, §10-312(a)(2), Annotated Code of Maryland, the Chief Judge or Chief Judges shall record the proceedings on an identity challenge record, in the form that the State Administrator prescribes.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Contents. The form shall contain appropriate places for:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Each of the challenger and the challenged voter to sign an oath or affirmation, under penalties of perjury, that the individual's responses and statements are true;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>The signature of the Chief Judge who administered each oath; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>The reason given for the challenge.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Election Law Article, §§2-102(b)(4) 2-202(b), and 10-312, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date:</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01—.04 adopted as an emergency provision effective March 1, 2000 (27:6 Md. R. 636); adopted permanently effective July 10, 2000 (27:13 Md. R. 1213)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter recodified from COMAR 33.07.06, Regulation .04 repealed, and new Regulation .04 adopted effective November 24, 2003 (30:23 Md. R. 1655)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .02 amended effective April 19, 2010 (37:8 Md. R. 623)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .03A amended as an emergency provision effective June 2, 2006 (33:13 Md. R. 1062); amended permanently effective August 14, 2006 (33:16 Md. R. 1366)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .03B amended as an emergency provision effective January 2, 2004 (30:24 Md. R. 1737); amended permanently effective March 1, 2004 (31:4 Md. R. 319); amended effective April 19, 2010 (37:8 Md. R. 623)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04 repealed as an emergency provision effective June 2, 2006 (33:13 Md. R. 1062); repealed permanently effective August 14, 2006 (33:16 Md. R. 1366)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter recodified from COMAR 33.07.07 to 33.07.08 effective March 19, 2012 (39:5 Md. R. 384)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended effective March 19, 2012 (39:5 Md. R. 384)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .03B amended effective March 19, 2012 (39:5 Md. R. 384)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>