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Supplement to the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, 1898
Volume 391, Page 273   View pdf image (33K)
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ART. 33] OFFENSES. £73-

any name of any person, except as provided in this article; or
shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently interfere 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 conviction thereof, shall be
punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not
less than six months nor more than five years.

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1896, ch. 202.

83. If at any election hereafter held in any city or county,
any person shall falsely personate any voter or other person, and
vote or attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of such
voter or other person, 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 without having a legal right to vote there-
in; or shall vote more than once, or vote in more than one elec-
tion precinct; or having once voted, shall vote or attempt or
offer to vote again; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently
do any unlawful act to secure for himself or for any other person
a right or opportunity to vote; or shall by force, threat, menace,
intimidation, 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 attempt to prevent or hinder, any qualified voter from
freely exercising 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, or otherwise, compel or
induce, or attempt to compel or induce, any judge or clerk of
election in any election precinct to receive the vote of any person
not legally qualified or entitled to vote at the said election in such
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