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election, or to and from any room where such registration, revision of
registration or election or canvass of votes or making of any return
and certificates thereof may be had; or

(c)   Who shall molest, interfere with, remove or eject from any
such place of registration or election or of canvassing ballots cast
thereat or of making returns or certificates thereof, any such officer
of registration, judge of election, challenger or person designated as
provided in this Article to watch the reception or canvassing of any
ballots except as otherwise provided in this Article.

(d)   Any person convicted of any such offense 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 Dollars ($50) nor more
than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), or by both fine and imprison-
ment.

190.   Destroying Ballot Box, Defacing Election Records. 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 of-
ficial 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 evi-
dence in this Article required, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be
adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall for each and every such of-
fense be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less
than one nor more than five years.

191.   Tampering with Voting Machines. Any judge of election or
other person 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 operation 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 misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo imprison-
ment for not more than one year, or to pay a fine not exceeding One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000), or both, in the discretion of the court.

192.  Fraudulent Certificates, Endorsements. Whoever shall falsely
make or fraudulently deface or fraudulently destroy any certificate
of nomination or any part thereof, or file any certificate of nomina-
tion, knowing the same or any part thereof to be falsely made, or
suppress any certificate 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
Dollars ($100) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), or
by imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding three years, or
by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

193.  Removal or Destruction of Equipment. Whoever shall, during
any general, special or primary election, remove or destroy any of
the equipment, supplies or other conveniences placed in the booths or
compartments in this Article described for the purpose of enabling