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Session Laws, 1910 Session
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ELECTIONS. 127

general election, who is found guilty of the same offense in any
primary election, as herein provided for, shall be deemed guilty
of the same crime of which his offense is made to consist by
and under the General Election Law, and particularly under
any of the above-mentioned sections, respectively, thereof, and
shall be liable to the same punishment or penalty as is pre-
scribed for such sections thereof; provided, that Sections 160M,
160N, 160o, 160p, 160o, 160R, 160s, 160T, 160u and 160v hereof,
with respect to offenses, penalties and punishments under the
Primary Election Law shall have full force and effect in all
cases to which the same are applicable.

160M. Each of said judges appointed under this subtitle
shall have power to cause the arrest of any one violating any
of the provisions hereof, and in the absence of any person
authorized by law to make arrests said judge may designate
some person for that purpose, and each of the judges shall be
conservators of the peace in their respective primary election
polls, at which they may act as such judges, and may, in the
manner herein provided, cause the arrest of any person dis-
turbing the peace, and cause the party so arrested to be com-
mitted for the action of the Grand Jury or a Justice of the
Peace, as the case may be.

160N. Any judge or clerk of such primary election, or any
member of any committee, or of the governing body of any
political party participating in primary elections under this
subtitle, or any delegate to a convention or party executive, on
whom any duty is required in this subtitle to be performed, who
shall be guilty of any wilful violation of any provision of this
subtitle, or of any neglect or corrupt practice in executing the
same, not otherwise provided for herein, he or they shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500), or by imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days,
nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court.

160o. If any clerk or judge of any such primary election, or
any person performing the duties thereof shall wilfully keep a
false poll list or the book of registry or shall knowingly insert
in his poll list or the book of registry any false statement or
name or statement or abbreviation of a word or any check,
alteration or mark, except as in this subtitle provided, or who
is guilty of concealing, wilfully destroying, mutilating, defac-
ing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or secreting the whole
or any part of any record registry of voters, return or state-
ment of votes, poll list or any papers, documents, ballots,
envelopes or papers of any description in this subtitle directed


 

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