Year: 1866

vote for, such person upon conviction thereof
shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor
more than i've hundred dollars. Same Act, Sl00. ]
1877. If any person, not having the legal quail
hcations of any elector, shall frauduleutly vote,
or shall fraudulently attempt to vote at any E.
lection, such person on conviction thereof shall
be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor
more than two hundred dollars. GSame Act,
/ S1O1.1


1885, If any elector shall vote more than once
at any elect on, or shall knowingly hand in two
or more 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 GSame Act,
| Sl02.


l89. 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, or promise thereof, to vote differently
from what such eector shall intend or desire to
vote. such person so offending shall, upon con-
victon thereof, be fined in any sum not less than
fifty r-more than five hundred dollars. Same
Act. SlO3.l


l9o If any inspector, judge, clerk OF an
election shall, previous to putting the o"iiot oi
any elector in the hallot-box, attempt to pry in'o
or find out any name or names on such oaiiot
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 folo
ed ballot of AN elector, which has been handed
in TO the Board of Judges, to be opened or ex-
amned into previous TO putting the same lnto
the ballot box or if any inspector, Judge or
clerk of an election shall make or place any marx
or device on any folded ballot which has been
handed in to the Board of Judges by any cleo
tor, with the view TO ascertaining the name OF
Ianv person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election or II any
inspector, Judge clerk of an election, without
the consent Of the elector shall disclose the name
of any person or persons which such inspector,
Judge or clerk shall have fraudulently or illegal
/ ly discovered to have been voted for by such e.
| lectOr at any election every such inspector Judge
or clerk Of an election so offending, upon convic-
ton thereof. shall be fined in any sum not less
than fifty more than FIVE hundred dollars
Every person who shall forge or counterfeit re-
turns Of an election purporting to have been
held at II precinct, town or ward, where no cleo
ton was in fact held or shall wiltuly substitute
forged or counterfeit reluras of election in the
place of the true returns for precinct, town or
ward where an election was actually held, shall,
upon conviction. be punished by Imprisonment
in the State Prison for a term not less than two
wears and not more than ten years. Every per-
son who shall wilfully add to or subtract from
the votes actually cast at an election in any re-
turns of snch election, whether such person be
an officer of such election or not; every officer
of elections who shall wilfuly make false and
fraudulent returns. in any manner whatever, of
an election held in any precinct, town or ward F.;
and every person whomsoever, whether officer or
not. to whom or through whom any such returns
are required by law to be made, whether such
person be county Clerk, messenger, Secretary of
State, or other person, who shall alter such e.
lection returns shall upon conviction be punish
ek by Imprisonment in the State Prison for a
term not less Than one nor more than five years.
Every person who shall aid or abet in the COM
mission Of any of the offences mentioned in this
section. or who being present ut or cognizant of
the commission of either of said offences, and
shall not give information thereof AS
practicable to the District Attorney or Grand Ju-
ry of the proper county, or to some Justice of
the Peace Of such county, shall, for every such
offence, be punished, upon conviction thereof,
by imprisonment in the county Jail forthe period
of six months, or in the State Prison for "A term
of not more than Two years. amendment,
\ pri 90, 1863, p. 398.