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Session Laws, 1967
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SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       905

(i) To register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or any
name of any person, except as provided in this article;

(j) Knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently to interfere with, hinder
or delay any officer of registration in the discharge of his duties;

(k) To counsel, advise or induce, or attempt to induce any such
officer to refuse or neglect to comply with or perform his duties, or
to violate any law prescribed for regulating the same;

(1) To aid, counsel, procure or advise any voter, person or officer
of registration to do any act by law forbidden, or in this article
constituting an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed
to be done.

24-2. False voting and other wilful acts.

Every person convicted of any offense under the provisions of this
section shall be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the peniten-
tiary for not less than six months nor more than five years. The
following offenses shall be applicable to any election:

(a)    Falsely impersonate any voter or other person, and vote or
attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of such voter or other
person, or to vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any
other person, whether living or dead, in or upon any false, assumed
or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own;

(b)    Knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently to vote more than once
for any candidate for the same office, except as authorized by law;

(c)    To vote or attempt or offer to vote in any election district
or precinct without having a legal right to vote therein;

(d)    To vote more than once, or vote in more than one election
district or precinct;

(e)    Having once voted in an election, to vote or attempt to vote
again in the same election;

(f)    Knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently to do any unlawful act
to secure for himself or for any other person a right or opportunity
to vote;

(g)    By force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or
offer or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or
indirectly, to influence, or attempt to influence any voter in giving
his vote; or,

(1)    By such means to prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent
or hinder any qualified voter from freely exercising the right of
suffrage; or,

(2)    By any such means, to induce, or attempt to induce any such
voter to exercise any such right; or

(3)    By any such means or otherwise to compel or induce or
attempt to compel or induce any judge in any election district or
precinct to receive the vote of any person not legally qualified or
entitled to vote at the said election in such district or precinct;

(h) Knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently to interfere with, delay
or hinder in any manner any judge in the discharge of his duties;
or,

 

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