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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That if at any primary held

under the provisions of this Act any person shall falsely im-

personate any voter or other person and vote or attempt or

Impersonating

offer to vote in or upon the name of such voter or other person,

a voter.

or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any

other person whether living or dead, in or upon any false, as-

sumed or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own ;

or shall knowingly, wilfully, fraudulently vote more than once

for any candidate for the same office, or shall vote or attempt

or offer to vote in any election precinct without having a legal

right to vote therein, or shall vote more than once in any more

than one election precinct, or having once voted, shall vote or

attempt or offer to vote again, or shall knowingly, wilfully or

fraudulently do any unlawful act to secure for himself or for

any other person the right or opportunity to vote, or shall by

force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward or offer

or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or

indirectly, influence, attempt to influence any voter in giving

his vote or prevent or hinder or attempt to prevent or hinder

any qualified voter from freely exercising his right to vote at

said primary election, or shall by such means or otherwise

compel or induce or attempt to compel or induce any judge or

clerk in any election precinct to receive the vote of any person

not legally qualified or entitled to vote at said election pre-

cinct, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and every such

person shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprison-

Misdemeanor.

ment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more

than one year.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That any judge of election who

Unlawfully

shall wilfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the

excluding a
vote.

person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such

primary election, or who shall wilfully receive a vote from any

person who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to

vote at such primary election without exacting from such per-

son such proof of qualification as may be required by law, or

shall wilfully omit to challenge any one whom he knows or

suspects is not entitled to vote and who has not been challenged,

or who shall wilfully refuse to open or show the ballot boxes

empty prior to the opening of the polls, and if any judge of said

primary election who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any

false tally or certificate entrusted to his care and custody,

shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misde-

meanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county

jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year.