Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-06-26
The zs,,z Elso,lon Law.

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| The following is the f,lI +ov4
Seitz election law, which we raprint g..
general information:
Al ACT supplemental to an act o,...,-,..
| 10 preserve the purity of elections Ah ACT
SECTION l. Be IL enacted h, tbo f,o,,.,,,7
ASSen1otg Gt me the State Of Ohio, That it shall
pe unlaWtnI tor any person who is a can
didate for any office of trust or rroft m
der the Constitution and laws of this State.
| or ofthe United States, to loan, give di-
/ rectiy or. iu6lirecty, offer, or. promise TO
/ give, any money or other.tiIfng of yalue
to any eleetor within thedistrict in which
he is a candidate, for the purpose of in
fiuencing or retaining the vote of such
elector, or give, orptonise to give to any
person or persons any Of the above con-
sideratiohs of value, to. secure or retain
the influence OF such person or persons in
his behalf as snch candidate, Orto beused
| by such person or persons, to influence the
vote of any individual elector, or of cleo
tors generally, or tofndnenee him or them
to vote, or to refrain from voting; pro-
vided that nothing in this section shall be
construed to apply to hospitality at his
! own residence
SEC. ?. An rse8 found guilty of
! any of the acrs naTlled iii sechon one,
| shall be deemed guilty of bribery, and
upon conviction thereof, Shall be fined in
| lars nor more than one thousand dollars,
or be imprisoned in the penitentiary not
| exceeding three years; and if such Offen-
/ der shall have been elected to the office
! for which he was a candidate, his office
| shall be made vacant by conviction, and
/ filled as in other cases of vacancy; and
such person shall, moreover, be forever
ineligible to any Office of trust or profit
/ within this State.
SEC. 3. Any person, not a candidate
/ tor Office, who shall disburse, or give, or
promise to give any money, or other
thing OF value or give, or treat to any
spurious, malt or other liquors, either
| directly or indirectly, to influence any
voter in giving or Withholding his vote or
seek by violence or threaten to enforce
the payment of debt, or to begin a Grim
inal prosecution, or to injure the business
or trade of any electOr, or if any employ
er of laborerS, or, agent of such employer,
threaten to withhold or reduce the wages,
or to dismiss from service, or refuse to al
low the necessary time to employees to at
tend at the place of election, and vote, as
an inducement to such elector to vote con-
trary to his inclinatiOns, or any person
selling or offering to sell his influence
with other voters, or who, for or with any
consideration of value enumerated in sec
tiOn one, shall seek to influence him to
vote, or to refrain from voting, shall be
deemed guilty of a felony, ahd upon con-
victfon thereof, shall be fined in any SUM
not less than one hundred, nor more than
two thousand dollars, or imprisoned in
the penitentiary not more than three
years, at the discretion of the court.
SEC. 4. Any candidate for nomination
by any political party in this State, for any
office of trust or profit, who shall commit
|, any of the acts named in section one of
this act, for the purpose of securing the
influence of any person in his behalf, OF
to influence any delegate voting upon the
: question of his nomination, shall be
deemed guilty of bribery, and shall be
fined not less than one hundred dollars,
, and shall be disqualified from holding the
Office, though he be thereafter elected ac-
: cOrding to law. The commission of any
of the acts named in section one, during
the candidacy of such person for nomi-
nation for Office as aforesaid, shall be
priDaG fdcie evidence of intent to influence
t the vote of delegates.
SEC. 3. That whoever asks. demands
or receives from any candidate for the
nomination, by any political party OF
convention to any office, or from any can
: didate for any Office, under any law any
, money or thing of value, not then du'
and owing, or makes application to any
such candidate to purchase any ticket to
or to give any money or other thing o
value, for any pretended ball, picnic, fair
| entertainment, or charitable enterprise
Z with the expectation or belief that sucl
{ Q6manQs request, or receipt Will lllIlltenC
f. any vote, shall be fined not less than fifty
: nor more than three hundred dollars, o
imprisoned sixty days in the county jail
or work house, if there be such an institu
e ton in the county, or both, and such de-
e mand or request of any candidate shall b.
deemed prin1G .facie proof of such expecta
tion or belief. No prosecution shall b.
: instituted under any of the provisions o
this act, unless the same shall be com
! menced within six months after the com
mission of the offense.
SEC. 6. The prosecuting attorney may
i frame his Indictment with any number o
; counts for different offenses against thi
: act, that may be committed to affect any
one election, by any one candidate, anC
: may offer evidence tending to supper
f.. any, or all of said counts, and the jury
: shall take into consideration all the evi
dence offered on each side of said counts
+. for the purpose of establishing the gull
> of the accused on all or any of said counts
SEC. z. This act shall take effect ant
be in force from and after its passage.
'o JAMES E. NEAL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
q JABEZ w. FITCH,
n President of the Senate.
n Passed May l, 1879.