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The Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, 1911
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898 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

Offenses.

1904, art. 33, sec. 87. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 82.

89. If at any general registration of voters or at any meeting of a
board of registry held for such purpose or for revision thereof, as
provided in this article, any person shall falsely personate a voter or
other person, and register or attempt or offer to register in the name of
such voter or other person, or if any person shall register or attempt
to make application to register in or under the name of any other
person, or in or under any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in or
under any name not his own; or shall register in two election precincts ;
or, having registered in one precinct, shall attempt or offer to register in
another; or shall fraudulently register or attempt or offer to register
in any election precinct, not having a legal right to register therein; or
shall knowingly or wilfully do any unlawful act to secure registration
for himself or any other person, or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudu-
lently, by false personation or otherwise, or by any unlawful means
cause or procure or attempt to cause or procure, the name of any
qualified voter in any election precinct to be erased or stricken, as in
this article provided, from any registry of the voters of such precinct,
made in pursuance of this article or otherwise; or by force, threat,
menace, intimidation, bribery, reward or offer or promise thereof, or
other unlawful means prevent, hinder or delay any person having a law-
ful right to register or be registered from duly exercising such right; or
shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently compel or induce, or attempt
or offer to compel or induce by such means or by any unlawful means,
any officer of registration in any election precinct to register, or attempt
to register any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such
precinct; or to register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or any
name of any person, except as provided in this article; or shall know-
ingly, wilfully or fraudulently interfere with, hinder or delay any
officer of registration in the discharge of his duties; or counsel, advise
or induce, or attempt to induce any such officer to refuse or neglect to
comply with or perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribed for
regulating the same; or shall aid, counsel, procure or advise any voter,
person or officer of registration to do any act by law forbidden, or in
this article constituting an offense, or to omit to do any act by law
directed to be done, every such person, upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less
than six months nor more than five years.
See sec. 162.

Ibid. sec. 88. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 83.

90. If at any election hereafter held in any city or county, any
person shall falsely personate any voter or other person, and vote or
attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of such voter or other
person or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any other
person, whether living or dead, or in or upon any false, assumed or ficti-

 

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