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any ballot 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 open-
ing of the polls, and before the voting shall have begun; or
shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently put any ballot or other
paper having the semblance thereof in 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 per-
son shall fraudulently during the canvass of ballots in any man-
ner 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 bal-
lots taken from the ballot box then being canvassed, or from
any ballot-box which has not been canvassed, every such per-
son 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.

1896, ch. 202, sec 88.

94. If any judge or clerk of election, or any officer of regis-
tration, revision, election or canvass of whom any duty is
required in this article, or by any other election law of this
State, shall be guilty of any wilful neglect of such duty, or any
corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execution of
the same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days' nor more
than three years, or by a fine of not less than fifty ($50) dollars
nor more than one thousand ($1, 000) dollars, or by both such
fine and imprisonment.

Ibid. sec. 89.

95. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or per-
son having the custody of any record, registry of voters or
copy thereof, oath, return or statements of votes, certificate,
poll-list, or any papers, documents, ballots, coupons or vote of
any description in this article directed to be made, filed or
preserved, who is guilty of concealing, wilfully destroying,
mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or
secreting the whole or any part thereof, or who shall fraudu-
lently make any entry, erasure or alteration therein except as