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or to receive the vote of any person in any ward not entitled to vote there-
in, or to refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote therein,
or shall aid, counsel, advise, procure or assist any voter, person or judge
of election, or other officer of election to do any act by law forbidden or in
this act constituted an offence, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be
done, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not
less than one nor more than five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the
court.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161L

276. If any clerk of election, or any person performing the duties of
such clerk, shall wilfully keep a false poll list, or shall knowingly insert
in his poll list any false statement, or any name, except as in this article
provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than
one nor more than five years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand

dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161M.

277. 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 elec-
tion, without exacting from such person such oath or other proof of qualifi-
cation as may be required by law; or shall wilfully omit to challenge any
person offering to vote whom he knows, or has reasonable cause to believe
to be not entitled to vote, and who has 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 interposed, so that all who desire cannot constantly see such ballot-box,
shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than one nor more
than five years, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the

court.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161N.

278. Every judge or clerk of election who shall make, sign, publish or
deliver any false tally or return of election, or any false certificate or

statement of the result of an election, knowing the same to be false, and
every judge or clerk of election, or other officer or person, who shall
wilfully deface, destroy or conceal any statement, tally or certificate in-
trusted to his care and custody, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail
for not less than one nor more than five years, or by a fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion

of the court.