Year: 1871

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. [Same
Act, $lO3.l


190 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 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 ballot-box 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 name
of any person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; or 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 fraudulently
or illegally discovered to have been voted for be
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 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 a
term not less than two years and not more than
ten years. Every person who shall wilfuly add
to or subtract from the votes actually cast at an
election in any returns of such election, wheth-
er such person be officer such election or not ;
every officer of elections who shall wilfully 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 be 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 infor
nation thereof as soon as 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 a term of not more than
two years Amendment of April %, 1868, p.
398.1