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any unlawful means, any officer of registration, in any election precinct, to register or attempt to register, any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such precinct; or to register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or any name of any person, except as provided in this article; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently interfere with, hinder or delay any officer of registration in the discharge of his duties, or counsel, advise or induce, or attempt to induce any such officer to refuse or neglect to comply with or perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribed for regulating the same; or shall aid, counsel, procure or advise any voter, person or officer of registration to do any act by law forbidden, or in this article constituting an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done; every such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than five years.

83. If at any election hereafter held in any city or county, any person shall falsely personate any voter or other person, and vote or attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of such voter or other person, or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in or upon any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudently vote more than once for any candidate for the same office, except as authorized by law; or shall vote or attempt or offer to vote in any election precinct without having a legal right to vote therein; or shall vote more than once, or vote in more than one election precinct; or, having once voted, shall vote, or attempt or offer to vote again; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudently do any unlawful act to secure for himself or for any other person a right or opportunity to vote; or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence, or attempt to influence, any voter in giving his vote; or prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder, any qualified voter from freely exercising the right

of suffrage; or by any such means induce, or attempt to induce, any such voter to exercise any such right; or shall by any such means, or otherwise, compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce, any judge or clerk of election in any election precinct to receive the vote of any person not legally qualified or entitled to vote at the said election in such precinct, or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently interfere with, delay or hinder in any manner, any judge or clerk of election in the discharge of his duties; or by any such means, or other unlawful means, knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently counsel, advise, induce or attempt to induce, any judge or clerk of election whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce or declare the result of any such election, to give or make any false certificate, document, report, return or other false evidence in relation thereto; or to refuse or neglect to comply with his duty, or to violate any law regulating the same; or to receive the vote of any person in any election district not entitled to vote therein; or to refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote therein; or shall aid, counsel, advise, procure or assist any voter, person or judge of election or other officer of election to do any act by law forbidden, or in this article constituted an offense; or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done; every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than five years.

84. If any clerk of election, or any person performing the duties of such clerk, shall wilfully keep a false poll-list, or shall knowingly insert in his poll-list any false statement, or any name or statement, or any check, alteration or mark, except as in this article provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

85. Every judge of election who shall wilfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such election; or

shall wilfully receive a vote from any person who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to vote at such election, without exacting from such person such oath or other proof of qualification as may be required by law; or shall wilfully omit to challenge any person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects to be not entitled to vote, and who has not been challenged; or shall wilfully refuse to open and show the ballot-box to be empty prior to the opening of the polls; or shall permit any barricade or obstruction of any kind to be interposed, so that all who desire cannot constantly see such ballot-box, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than three months nor more than two years.

86. Every judge or clerk of election, or other officer or person who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or return of an election, or any false certificate or statement of the result of an election, knowing the same to be false; or who shall wilfully deface, destroy or conceal any statement, tally or certificate entrusted to his care and custody, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.

87. If any person other than a judge of election shall, at any election, knowingly and wilfully put, or cause to be put, any ballot or ballots, or other paper having the semblance thereof, into any box used at such election for the reception of votes; or if any judge of election shall knowingly or wilfully cause or permit any ballot or ballots to be in said box at the opening of the polls, and before the voting shall have begun; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently put any ballot or other paper having the semblance thereof, into any such box at any election, unless the same shall be offered by a voter whose name shall have been found and kept upon the registry, as hereinbefore provided, or who shall be entitled to vote under this article; or if any judge of election or other officer or person shall fraudulently during the canvass of ballots, in any manner change,

substitute or alter any ballot taken from the ballot-box then being canvassed or from any ballot-box which has not been canvassed; or shall remove any ballot or semblance thereof from, or add any ballot or semblance thereof to, the ballots taken from the ballot box then being canvassed or from any ballot-box which has not been canvassed; every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

88. If any judge or clerk of election or any officer of registration, revision, election or canvass, of whom any duty is required in this article or by any other election law of this State, shall be guilty of any wilful neglect of such duty, or any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execution of the same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days nor more than three years, or by fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

89. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or person having the custody of any record, registry of voters, or copy thereof, oath, return, or statement of votes, certificate, poll-list, or any papers, document, ballots, coupons, or vote of any description in this article directed to be made, filed or preserved, who is guilty of concealing, wilfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or secreting the whole or any part thereof, or who shall fraudulently make any entry, erasure or alteration therein, except as allowed and directed by the provisions of this article, or who permits any other person so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished for each and every such offense by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.

90. Every person not an officer such as is mentioned in the last preceding section, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in said last section, or who advises, procures or

abets the commission of the same, or any of them, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and for each and every such offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years, and such offense shall be deemed to have been committed whether such person has or had any custody or control, rightful or otherwise, over, or is charged with any duty in relation to said records, registers, ballots, coupons or other documents.

91. Any person who shall be convicted of wilfully and corruptly swearing or affirming in taking any oath or affirmation prescribed by, or upon any examination provided for, in this article, shall be guilty of a wilful and corrupt purjury, and shall be punished according to the laws of the state.

92. Every person who shall wilfully and corruptly instigate, advise, induce or procure any person to swear or affirm falsely as aforesaid, or to offer so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall suffer the punishment directed by law in cases of wilful and corrupt perjury.

93. If any person who shall have been convicted of bribery, felony or other infamous crime under the laws of this or any State, and who has never received pardon for such offense from the officer entitled to grant such pardon, shall thereafter vote, or offer to vote, at any election in this State, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and for each and every such offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

94. If any person shall wilfully disobey any lawful command of any judge of election or of any Board of Registry, given in the execution of his or their duty as such at any registration or election, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $250, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Any misdemeanor under this

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