Year: 1867

cause such elector thus to vote for different
person for any office than be intended and desir-
ed TO vote fol, such person upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than FIVE hundred dollars. TSame
Act, sl00.J


1871. If any person, not having the legal quail.
ifcaions OF any elector, shall fraudulently vote,
or shall frauduenty attempt to vote at any elec-
ton. such person conviction thereof shall be
fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more
than two hundred dollars. [Same Act, sIOl.1
1873. If any elector ehsll vote more thaa once
at any election, or shall knowingly hand in two
or more tickets folded together, 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. [Same Act,
s1O2.


ls9. If any inspector, judge clerk of any
election, while acting as such, shall induce, or
attempt to induce, any elector, either by menace
or reward, or promise thereof to vote differently
from what such eector shall intend or desire to
vote such person offending shall, upon con-
yiction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than
fifty nor more than FIVE hundred dollars. [Same
Act sl03.]


1870. If. any inspector, judge, or clerk of an
election shall, previous to putting the ballot of
any eector 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 or 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 ballotb or if any inspector, judge or
clerk.of an election shall make or place any
mark or devise on any folded ballot which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges by any
elector, with the view to ascertaining the Rame
of any person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; if any
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 frauduently
or illegally discovered to have been voted for by
such elcctor at any election, every such inspec-
| tor, Judge clerk of an election so offending
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any
sum not less than fifty nor more than five hun
dred dollars. Every person who shall forge or
counterfeit returns of an election purporting to
have been held at precinct, town or ward
where no election was in fact held, or shall will
| fully substitute forged counterfeit returns OF
election in the place of the true returns for a
precinct, town or ward where an election was
actually held, shall, upon conviction, be punish
ed by Imprisonment in the State Prison for
! 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-





every officer of elections who shall wifully make
false and fraudulent returns in any manner
whatever, of an election held in any precinct,
town ward and every person whomsoever
whether officer or not, TO whom or through nom
any such returns are required by law to Le made
whether such person be 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
State Prison for term not less than one nor
more than five years. Every person who shall
aid or abet in the commission of any of the Of
fences mentioned in this section, or who being
present at or cognizant Of the commission of
either of said offences, and shall not give nfor-
nation thereof as soon practicable to the
District Attorney 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. OIL
in the State prison for term of not more tina +
two years. Amendment of April ~, 1863, p
1851