588 . ELECTIONS. [ART. 33
tion is erroneous which directs the jury that section 96, which makes
wilful neglect of duty the offense, was applicable. The punishment im-
posed held to be altogether different from that prescribed by this section;
remand of the record for entry of proper judgment. Gochran v. State, 119
Md. 547.
1908, ch. 737, sec. 160V. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160V (p. 130). 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160U.
198. Whoever shall electioneer within one hundred feet of any
polling place of any such primary election in any county or shall hand
or deliver to any voter within one hundred feet of the election booth or
within the booth itself any ballot marked or unmarked, except the
unmarked ballot required by law to be handed the* by the primary elec-
tion officials, or who shall place a distinguishing mark upon any ballot or
envelope delivered to for the use of any voter at such primary elec-
tion, or who shall provide for or enclose in any envelope to be used in
voting such ballot, any inclosure whereby to identify the ballot, or who
shall endeavor to induce any voter within the polling place to show
how his ballot has been marked, or who shall carry away or attempt to
carry away from the polls or the officials having custody of the same
any said envelope or envelopes, or who shall deliver to any voter for
use in casting his ballot, or use any ballot or envelope different from
those provided for in this sub-title, or who shall show the face of a
marked ballot to any judge, clerk, officer or other person inside of the
polls before the polls close, or who shall induce, request directly or
indirectly agree with or encourage a voter to keep his ballot in sight of
any person or persons from the time at which its contents are known
by any such person or persons or his associate or associates until deliv-
ered to the judge in the envelope to be deposited in the ballot box, shall
upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than fifty
dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by im-
prisonment in jail for not less than fifteen days nor more than six
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and one-half of such
fine collected shall be paid to the informer.
1908, ch. 737, sec. 160W. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160V (p. 130). 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160V.
199. Nothing whatsoever in this sub-title shall be taken or con-
strued to prevent the application to the primary elections held here-
under and to the acts of all persons in connection with or relating to
said primary elections of the provisions, prohibitions and penalties pre-
scribed in Chapter 122 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land of 1908, and all supplements and amendments thereto relating to
corrupt practices at general and primary elections in this State and all
the provisions, prohibitions and penalties prescribed in said act, so far
as the same relate to primary elections, are hereby declared to be ap-
plicable to the primary elections in this sub-title provided for, except
*This line is just as it appears in the official copy of the acts of 1912.
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