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purpose, and each of said judges shall be conservators of the
peace at the respective primary election polls, precinct meet-
ing places or other meeting places at which they may act as
such judges, and may, in the manner herein provided, cause
the arrest of any person disturbing the peace.

308. Every judge at any primary election who shall wil-
fully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the person
offering the same is 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
that he is a legally registered voter in the precinct where he
applies to vote, and has not previously voted at said election,
or 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, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail for not
less than one month or more than a year, or by a fine of not
less than fifty dollars or more than three hundred dollars,
or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

309. If any person, upon the day of any primary 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 election or any official in charge thereof, or shall
alter, deface, injure or destroy or conceal any ballot which
has been counted and canvassed, or any poll list used at
such election, or any report, return or certificate of any such
election, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, he shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not
less than one month or more than one year, or by a fine
of not less than one hundred or more than four hundred dol-
lars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the
court.

310. Any judge or clerk of any primary election or other
officer or person who shall make, sign, publish, or deliver any
false tally or return of any primary election, or any false cer-
tificate, or statement of the result of any primary election, know-
ing the same to be false, or who shall wilfully deface, destroy or
conceal any statement, tally or certificate of such election en-
trusted to his care and custody, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprison-
ment in jail for not less than two months or more than two
years, or by a fine of not less than four hundred dollars.