Year: 1867

cause such elector thus to vote for different
person for any Office than he intended and desir-
ed to vote for, such person upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than FIVE hundred dollars. TSame


Act, Sl00.


1877. If any person, not having the legal quail.
ifcatons of any elector, shall fraudulently vote


or shall fraudulently attempt to vote at any cleo


ton, such person on conviction thereof shall be
fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more


than two hundred dollars. [Same Act SlOl.1


1873. If any elector shall vote more than once


at any election, or shall knowingly hand in two
or tickets folded together, or shall attempt
to vote more than once at the same election he


shall on conviction thereof be fined in any sum


not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars. TSame Act,
Slo2.1


ls9. If any inspector, Judge or clerk of any
election, while acting as SUCH shall induce or
attempt to induce, any elector, either by menace
or reward, promise thereof to vote differently
from what such elector shall intend or desire to
vote, such person so offending shall. upon con-


viction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. TSame
Act, Sl03.


100 If any inspector. judge, or clerk of an
election shall, previous to putting the ballot of


any elector in the ballot-box, attempt to pry into
or find out any name or names on such ballot


which shall have been handed in by said elector


in folded form or if any Inspector Judge or


clerk Of any election shall open suffer the


folded ballot of an elector, which has been hand
ed in to the Board of Judges, to be opened or


examined into previous to putting the same into


the ballot box; or if any inspector, Judge or
clerk of election shall make or place any


mark or devise any folded ballot which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges by any
elector, with the view to ascertaining the name


of any person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; or if anv
inspector, judge or clerk of an election without
the consent of the elector, shall disclose the


name of any person or persons which such in
spector. judge or clerk shall have fraudulently


or illegally discovered to have been voted for by
such elector at any election. every such inspec-


tor, judge or clerk Of an election so offending
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any
sum not less than fifty more than five hum
dred dollars. Every person who shall forge or
counterfeit returns of an election purporting to
have been held at Il precinct. town or ward


where no election was in fact held. or shall will


fully substitute forged or counterfeit returns OF


election in the place of the true returns for a
precinct, town ward where an election was


actually held, shall. upon conviction be punish


ed by Imprisonment in the State Prison for a
term not less than two years and not more than


ten years. Every person who shall wilfully add


to or subtract from the votes actually cast at an
election in any returns of such election, wheth-
cr SucH person De an 0tllccr such election or not


every officer Of elections who shall wilfulIy make
false and fraudulent returns. in any manner


whatever, of an election held in any precinct
town or ward; and every person whomsoever
whether officer or not. to whom or through whom
any such returns are required by law to he made
whether such person he County Clerk, Messen-
ger, Secretary of State, or other person, who


shall alter such election returns, shall upon con-
viction be punished by imprisonment in the
! fp loss thap


more than FIVE years. Every person who shall
aid or abet in the commission of any of the Of
fences mentioned in this section, who being
present at or cognizant of the commission of
either of said Offences and shall not give infor-
nation thereof as soon practicable to the
District Attorney or Grand Jury Of the proper
county, or to some Justice of the Peace of such
county, shall, for every such offence. be punish
ed, upon conviction thereof. by Imprisonment in
the county Jail for the period of six months or


in the State prison for term of not more than
two years. Amendment of April %, 1863 p
39S