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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".21" citation="COMAR 33.10.01.21" title_num="33" subtitle_num="10" chapter_num="01" heading="Voting Assistance — Spoiled Ballots.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Obtaining Replacement.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Except as provided in §A(2) of this regulation, a voter who makes an error or otherwise spoils a ballot may return the ballot to an election judge and obtain another ballot.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A voter may not be issued more than two replacement ballots.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Obscuring Prior Votes. Before the election judge accepts a spoiled ballot, the election judge shall instruct the voter to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If the voter manually marked one or more contests on the spoiled ballot, mark all of the voting positions in those contests to obscure the voter’s selections; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If the voter used the ballot marking device to make selections, use a black marker provided by an election judge to obscure the barcodes printed on the ballot.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Spoiled Ballot Envelope. An election judge shall place all spoiled ballots in the spoiled ballot envelope.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>