Phifer v. State

Maryland’s Fair Election Practices Act is presently codified as Maryland Code (1957,1976 Repl. Yol.), Art. 33, §§ 26-1 to -21.1 Section 26-4 (a) of that enactment, among other things, makes it unlawful for a “political committee, or any of its members, to . .. disburse money” to promote any of the purposes for which the political committee exists or acts unless a chairman and a treasurer have been appointed and their names and addresses, as well as the names and addresses of the political committee’s other principal officers, have been filed with the appropriate election board. As a result of…