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as provided in this article to be present at the reception or
canvass of ballots, in his free attendance and presence at the
place of registration or revision of registration, or of election
in the election -precinct in and for which he is appointed and
designated to serve, or in his full and free access and egress to
and from any such place of registration, revision of registra-
tion or of election, or to and from any room where such regis-
tration, revision of registration or election or canvass of votes
or making of any return and certificates thereof may be had,
or shall molest, interfere with, remove or eject from any such
place of registration or election or of canvassing ballots cast
thereat or of making returns or certificates thereof, any such
officer of registration, judge or clerk of election, challenger or
person designated as provided in this article to watch the
reception or canvassing of any ballots except as otherwise pro-
vided in this article, or shall unlawfully threaten or attempt or
offer so to do, every such person shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by impris-
onment in jail for not less than three months nor more than one
year, or by fine of not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more
than one thousand ($1, 000) dollars, or by both fine and
imprisonment.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 97.

103. If any person upon the day of any election, or before
the canvass of votes is completed, shall conceal or wilfully
break or destroy any ballot-box used or intended to be used at
such election, or shall wilfully or fraudulently conceal, secrete
or remove any such box from the custody of the judges of elec-
tion or other official in charge thereof, or shall alter, deface,
injure or destroy or conceal any ballot which has been deposited
in any ballot-box at such election which has not been counted
and canvassed, or any poll-list used at such election, or any
report, return, certificate or any evidence in this article required,
he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony,
and shall for each and every such offense be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than five years.

Ibid. sec. 98.

104. If at any election precinct, at any registration of voters
or revision thereof, any officer of registration shall knowingly
wilfully admit any person to registration, or make any entry
upon any register unless a majority of the board of registry