ELECTIONS 1481

of his office of such certified determination and statement as to the election
of a United States Senator to represent the State of Maryland in the Senate
of the United States to the Secretary and presiding officer respectively of
the United States Senate, to inform that body of the result of the election
for Senator; and such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the right
of the candidate certified as receiving the highest numbers of votes to be
seated.

Offenses.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 97. 1912, sec. 89. 1904, sec. 87. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 82. 1937,

ch. 95, sec. 97.

133. 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 pro-
vided in this Article, or at any time after the establishment of a system
of permanent general registration, as provided by Sections 50 to 60, inclu-
sive, hereof, 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 pre-
cinct, shall 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 fradulently, 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 lawful 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 registra-
tion 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 knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently inter-
fere 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 convic-
tion thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the peniten-
tiary for not less than six months nor more than five years.

This and following sections referred to in sustaining local election law for Havre de
Grace. Mandamus. Qualification of voters. Moore v. Bay, 149 Md. 294.

An indictment under this section upheld. Simond v. State, 127 Md. 32.

See sec. 212.