The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-11

Sc ition |. Odenses against the cleo |
ton laws and against the rules and
regulations concerning the administer
ing of oaths and the holding of cleo
tions, promulgated by the President,
are divided into two classes, VIZ
ELECTION Frauds" and "Misdemenors,"
as hereinafter defined.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
Section .. The following persons shall
be deemed guilty of an election fraud:
/. Every person who shall directly or
indirectly, personally or through an
other, give, procure or lend, or agree, or
offer to give, procure or lend, or who
shall endeavor to procure, any money or
Office or place of employment of valuable
consideration to or for any elector, or to
or for any person for an elector, or to or
for any person in order to induce any
elector to vote or refrain from voting,
or to vote or refrain from voting for
any particular person or party, or who
shall do any such act on account of any
person having voted or refrained from
voting for any particular person at any
| election.
.. Every person who shall directly or
indirectly, personally or through an
other, make any such gift, loan or
offer, promise, procurement or agree
ment as aforesaid, to any person except
to such assistants as are permitted by
law, or by the rules and regulations is
sued by the President i'll accordance
with the Constitution, in order to in
duce such person to procure or en-
deavor to procure the election OF any
person to the Legislature; or to procure
the vote of any elector at any election.
3. Every person who shall advance
or pay, or cause to be paid, any money
to, or to the use OF, any other person,
with the intent that such money, or any
part thereof, shall be expended in
bribery at any election, or for any pur-
pose connected with or incidental to any
election other than the objects and pur-
: poses for which money is by law or the
said Rules and Regulations allowed to
be expended, excepting only reasonable
expenses for conveying voters to the
polling places on election days; or who
shall knowingly pay or Gauss TO be paid
: any money to any person in the dis
charge or repayment of my money
wholly OF partly expended i'll bribery at
any election, or for any purpose con-
nected with or incidental to any
election other than the objects and
purposes for which money is by law OF
, the said Rules AMI Regulations allowed
to be expended.
4. Every elector who shall, before,
during or after any election, directly or
indirectly. personally or through an
other, receive, agree or contract for
any money, gift, loan or valuable con-
7 sideration, office, place or elnploy ment
5 for himself or any other person, fol
framing to vote or agreeing to refrain
from voting, or for voting, or
refrainng to vote for any particular
person or party.
/ 5. Every person who shall at any
, election, personally or through another,
or by any ways or means on his behalf,
directly or indirectly give or provide, or
cause to be given or provided, or shall be
accessory to the giving or providing, or
shall pay wholly or in part any expenses
incurred for any meat, drink, entertain
ment or provision to or for any person
in order to be elected, or for being
elected, or for procuring the election Of
any candidate, or for the purpose of in
tiuencing such person or any other per-
son to vote or refrain from voting, or for
voting or refraining from voting for any
particular person or party at such cleo
ton, or on account of such person
having voted or refrained from voting,
or voted or refrained from voting for
any particular person or party.
8. Every person who shall directly
or indirectly, personally or through
another, make use OF, or threaten to
make use of, any force, violence, or re-
straint or inflict or threaten to inflict
any injury, damage, or loss in any man
ner, or in any way practice intimidation
upon or against any person in order to
induce or compel such person TO vote or
refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain
from voting for any particular person or
party at any election, or on account of
such person having voted or refrained
from voting, or voted or refrained from
voting for any particular person or
party; or who shall by abduction, dis
tress or any device or continuance inn
pede, prevent or otherwise interfere
with the free exercise Of the elective
franchise
7. Every person who, at any election,
votes or attempts to vote in the name OF
any other person, living or dead, or in
some fictitious name, or who, hav-
ing once voted, votes or attempts to vote
again, or knowingly gives or attempts
to give more than one ballot for the same
Office at one time OF voting.
s. Every person who, before or during
an election, knowingly publishes false
statement of the withdrawal Of any
candidate at such election.
.. Every person who induces or pro-
cures any peIson to withdraw from be-
ing candidate at an election in consid-
Grafton of any payment or gift, or