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to open and show the ballot box to be empty prior to the opening
of the polls; or shall permit any barricade or obstructions of any
kind to be interposed, 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.

1896, ch. 202.

86. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or per
son, who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or
return of an election, 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 certifi-
cate entrusted to his care and custody, shall, on conviction thereof,
be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by impris-
onment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than
ten years.

Ibid.

87. If any person other than a judge of election shall, at any
election, knowingly and wilfully put, or cause to be put, any bal-
lot or ballots, or other paper having the semblance thereof, into
any box used at such election 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, wil-
fully or fraudulently put any ballot or other paper having 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 article; 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-