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period not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 84

90. 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 or statement, or any check, alteration or mark,
except as in this article provided, he shall, upon conviction
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than five years.

Ibid. sec. 85.

91. 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 election without exacting
from such person such oath or other proof of qualification as
may be required by law; or shall wilfully omit to challenge
any person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects to be
not entitled to vote, and who has not 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 convic-
tion thereof be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the
penitentiary for not less than three months, nor more than two
years.

Ibid. sec. 86.

92. 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 cer-
tificate entrusted to his care and custody, shall on conviction
thereof be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 87.

93. If any person other than a judge of election shall at
any election, knowingly and wilfully put, or cause to be put