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guardianship, as a lunatic, or as a person non compos
mentis, shall be entitled to vote.
SEC. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly
or indirectly, any bribe, present or reward, or any promise,
or any security, for the payment or delivery of money, or
any other thing, to induce any voter to refrain from casting
his vote, or to prevent him in any way from voting, or to
procure a vote for any candidate or person proposed, or
voted for as an elector of President and Vice-President of
the United States, or Representative in Congress or for any
office of profit or trust, created by the Constitution or Laws
of this State, or by the Ordinances, or authority of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the person giving,
or offering to give and the person receiving the same, and'
any person who gives or causes to be given, an illegal vote,
knowing it to be such, at any election be hereafter held ii
this State, shall, on conviction in a Court of Law, in addi-
tion to the penalties now or herafter to be imposed by law,
be forever disqualified to hold any office of profit or trust,
or to vote at any election thereafter.
But the General Assembly may, in its discretion, remove
the above penalty and all other penalties upon the vote
seller so as to place the penalties for the purchase of votes
on the vote buyer alone.*
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
pass Laws to punish, with fine and imprisonment, any per-
son who shall remove into any election district or precinct
of any ward of the city of Baltimore, not for the purpose of
acquiring a bona fide residence therein, but for the purpose
of voting at an approaching election, or who shall vote in
any election district or ward in which he does not reside
(except in the case provided for in this Article), or shall,
at the same election, vote in more than one election district,
or precinct, or shall vote, or offer to vote, in any name not
his own, or in place of any other person of the same name,
or shall vote in any county in which he does not reside.
SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall provide by law for a
uniform Registration of the names of all the voters in this
State who possesses the qualifications prescribed in this
Article, which Registration shall be conclusive evidence to
the Judges of election of the right of every person thus reg-
istered to vote at any election thereafter held in this State;
but no person shall vote at any election, Federal or State,
hereafter to be held in this State, or at any municipal elec-
tion in the city of Baltimore, unless his name appears in
* Thus amended by Chapter 602, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people
November 4, 1913,
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