54

LAWS OF MARYLAND

cations as may be required by law ; or shall wilfully omit to
challenge any person offering to vote whom he knows or sus-
pects to be not entitled to vote, and who has not been chal-
lenged ; 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 inter-

Penalty.

posed, so that all who desire cannot constantly see such ballot
box, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprison-
ment In jail or in the penitentiary for not less than three
months nor more than two years.

Making false
tally, etc.

270 ZZZ. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer
or person who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false
tally or return of an election, or any false certificate or state-
ment of the result of an election knowing the same to be false,
or who shall wilfully deface, destroy or conceal any statement,

Penalty.

tally or certificate entrusted to his care or 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.
270 AAAA. If any person other than a judge of election

Unlawfully
putting
ballots into
ballot box,
etc.

shall, at any election, knowingly and wilfully put, or cause to
be put, 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 opening 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 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

Penalty.

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 there-
of, 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.
270 B B B B. If any judge or clerk of election or any officer of
registration, revision, election or canvass of whom any duty is