1586 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

provided in this Article, or shall unlawfully threaten or at-
tempt or offer so to do, every such person shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than three months nor more
than one year, or by a fine of not less than fifty ($50. 00) dol-
lars nor more than one thousand ($1, 000. 00) dollars, or by
both fine and imprisonment.

180. If any person upon the day of any general, special or
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 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, lie shall, upon con-
viction 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.

181. Any judge of election, or other person, who shall vio-
late any of the provisions of this sub-title, or who shall tamper
with, or injure, or attempt to injure, any voting machine to be
used or being used in any general, special or primary election,
or who shall prevent, or attempt to prevent, the correct opera-
tion of such machine, or any unauthorized person who shall
make or have in his possession a key to a voting machine to be
used or being used in an election, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and, f upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to
undergo imprisonment for not more than one year, or to pay
a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00), or both,
in the discretion of the court.

182. Whoever shall falsely make or fraudulently deface or
fraudulently destroy any certificate of nomination or any part
thereof, or file any certificate of nomination, knowing the same
or any part thereof to be falsely made, or suppress any certi-
ficate of nomination which has been duly filed, or any part
thereof, or forge or falsely make the official endorsement on
any ballot shall be punished by a fine of not less than one
hundred ($100. 00) dollars nor more than one. thousand
($1, 000. 00) dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for a period not
exceeding three years, or by both fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the court.

183. Whoever shall, during any general, special or primary
election, remove or destroy any of the equipment, supplies or