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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

self or any other person ; or shall knowingly, wilfully or
fraudulently, by false personations or otherwise, or by any
unlawful means cause or procure, or attempt to cause or pro-
cure the name of any qualified voter in any election precinct
to be erased or stricken, as in this Article provided, from any
registry of the voters of such precinct made in pursuance of
this Article or otherwise ; or by force, threat, menace, intimi-
dation, bribery, reward or offer, or promise thereof, or other
unlawful means prevent, hinder or delay any person having a
lawful right to register or be registered from duly exercising
such right ; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently com-
pel, or induce or attempt, or offer to compel or induce by such
means, or by any unlawful means any officer of registration in
any election precinct to register, or attempt to register,
any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such pre-
cinct, or to register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or
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

Penalty.

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.
270 w w w. If at any election hereafter held in said city,

Unlawfully
voting, etc.

any person shall falsely personate any voter or other person,
and vote or attempt or offer to vote in or employ 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 hav-
ing a legal right to vote therein ; or shall vote more than once
or vote in more than one election 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 opportu-
nity to vote ; or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation,