The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-04-20
Second Conviction Under the
Election Law Proposed By
Senator jackson Brings
Perpetual Disfranchise-
ment
FINES BXACTED ALSO
GOVERNOR WILL PROBABLY
SIGN THIS AND IT'S CoMPAN-
{ ION MEASURES AT ONCE.

Governor Stokes is busy considering
the jackson election laws.
Senate 261, the third and last of the
acts to prevent corrupt practices in re-
lation to elections, provides as follows:
"If any person shall. directly or indi-
directly, by himself or by any other per-
son in his behalf, give lend or agree to
give or lend, or shall offer, promise or
promise to procure, or endeayor to pro
cure, any money or other valuable con-
sideration or thing to or for any voter,
or for any person, in order to IN
duce any voter to vote or refrain from
registering for any election, on shall cor
ruptly do or commit any of the acts in
this section mentioned on account OF any
such voter having voted or refralned
from voting at an election, or registered
or refrained from registering for an
election, such person so offending shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to
disfranchisement for a period of FIVE
years from the date of conviction.
"Any person who shall. directly or in
directly, by himself or by any other per-
son in his behalf, give or procure. or
agree to give or procure, or offer OF
promise to procure or endeavor to pro-
cure any office, place or employment to
or for any voter, or to or for any person
on behalf of such voter, or to or for
any other person. in order to induce such
voter to vote or refrain from voting, or
to register or refrain from registering, or
shall corruptly do any act as aforesaid
on account of any voter having voted OF
refrained from voting, or having regis
tered or rerained from registering for
any election. shall be guilty of misde-
meanor. and being thereof convicted,
shall be sentenced to disfranchisement
for period of FIVE years from the date
of conviction.
"Any person who shall give, advance
or pay, or cause to be given, advanced
or paid any money or other valuable
thing to any other person, OF to the use
of any other person, with the intent that
s,tch money or other valuable thing, or
any part thereof, shall be expended or
used for bribery of voters, or for any
other unlawful purpose at any election,
or who shall knowingly pay, or cause to
be paid, any money to any person wholly
or in part expended in bribery of voters
at any election, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and, on conviction thereof,
shall be sentenced to disfranchisement
for period of five years from the date
of conviction.
''Any voter who shall directly or indi
rectly, by himself or by any other per-
son on his behalf, receive, agree or con-
tract for any money gift, loan or valua'
BILE consideration, office. place of employ
ment for himself or for any other person
for voting or agreeing to vote, or for re-
framing or agreeing to refrain from vot-
ing at any election, or for registering OF
agreeing to register, or for refraining OF
for agreeing to refrain from registering
for any election, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and being thereof con.
victed, shall be sentenced to disfran-
chisement for period of FIVE years from
the date of conviction.
"Any employer of any workmen. o.
any agent, superintendent or overseer oi
any company or corporation employing
workmen, or any person whosoever, whC
shall, directly or indirectly, by himself
or by any other person in his behalf ol
by his direction make use of or threaten
to make use of any force, violence OF re
straint, or infict ~or threaten to infict
BY himself or by any other person, any
injur damage, harm or loss agains
any person or persons in his employ, il
order to induce or compel such employees
or employees to vote or refrain from
voting for any particular candidate oil
candidates at any election. or on aecoun1
of such employee or employees having
voted rrerained from voting for any
particular candidate or candidates al
any election. or who shall, by any sort
of, duress, constraint or improper infu
enee or by any fraudulent or impropel
device, contrivance or scheme. hinder ol
prevent tj8 free exercise of the franchise
of any voter at any election. or shal
thereby compel. induce or prevail upoI
amy voter to vote for or against aa,