3550 ARTICLE 11.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270YYY. 1918 Code, sec. 427.

402. Every judge of election who shall wilfully exclude any vote duly
tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled
to vote at such election; or shall wilfully receive a vote from any person
who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to vote at such

election without exacting from such person such oath or other proof of
qualifications as may be required by law; or shall wilfully omit to chal-
lenge any person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects to be not
entitled to vote, and who has not been challenged; or shall wilfully refuse
to open and show the ballot box to be empty prior to the opening of the

polls; or shall permit any barricade or obstruction of any kind to be inter-
posed, so that all who desire cannot constantly see such ballot box, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the

penitentiary for not less than three months nor more than two years.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270ZZZ. 1918 Code, sec. 428.

403. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or person who

shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or return of an elec-
tion, or any false certificate or statement of the result of an election
knowing the same to be false, or who shall wilfully deface, destroy or

conceal any statement, tally or certificate entrusted to his care or custody,
shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be
punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than ten years.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270AAAA. 1918 Code, sec. 429.

404. If any person other than a judge of election shall, at any election,
knowingly and wilfully put, or cause to be put, any ballot or ballots, or

other paper having the semblance thereof, into any box used at such elec-
tion for the reception of votes; or if any judge of election knowingly or

wilfully cause or permit any ballot or ballots to be in said box at the
opening of the polls, and before the voting shall have begun; or shall
knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently put any ballot or other paper hav-
ing the semblance thereof into any such box at any election, unless the
same shall be offered by a voter whose name shall have been found and
kept upon the registry, as hereinbefore provided, or who shall be entitled
to vote under this subtitle; or if any judge of election or other officer or
person shall fraudulently during the canvass of ballots in any manner
change, substitute or alter any ballot taken from the ballot box then
being canvassed, or from any ballot box which has not been canvassed,
or shall remove any ballot or semblance thereof from or add any ballot
or semblance thereof to the ballots taken from the ballot box then being

canvassed, or from any ballot box which has not been canvassed, every
such person shall upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony,
and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less

than one nor more than five years.