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exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding
six months, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of
the court.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 35, sec. 16. 1805, ch. 97, sec. 12. 1888, ch. 112.

55. If at any election hereafter held in Baltimore city, or in
any county, any person shall falsely personate any voter, and vote
or attempt or offer to vote, in or upon the name of such voter, 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 fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own; or shall
knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently vote more than once for any
candidate for the same office, except as authorized by law; or shall
vote, or attempt or offer to vote in any election precinct or district
without being registered as a legal voter therein; or shall vote
more than once, or vote in more than one election precinct or dis-
trict ; or, having once voted, shall vote, or attempt or offer to vote
again; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently do any unlaw-
ful act to secure for himself, or for any other person, a right or
opportunity to vote; or shall by force, threat, menace, intimida-
tion, bribery or reward, or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise
unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence or attempt to
influence any voter in giving his vote, or prevent or hinder, or at-
tempt to prevent or hinder any qualified voter from freely exer-
cising the right of suffrage; or by any such means induce, or
attempt to induce any such voter to exercise any such right, or
shall by any such means compel or induce, or attempt to compel
or induce any judge of election or other officer of election in any
election precinct or district to receive the vote of any person not
legally qualified or entitled to vote at the said election in such
precinct or district; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently
interfere with, delay or hinder in any manner any judge of elec-
tion, poll clerk or other officer of election, in the discharge of his
duties, or by any such means, or other unlawful means knowingly,
wilfully or fraudulently counsel, advise, induce or attempt to in-
duce any judge of election, poll clerk or other officer of election
whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce or declare the
result of any such election, to give or to make any false certifi-
cate, document, report, return or other false evidence in relation