908                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 392

(a)    If any person shall knowingly or willfully cause or permit
any vote to be recorded on a voting machine at any time other than
when duly admitted to the voting machine to cast his ballot in the
election district or precinct in which he is entitled to vote.

(b)    If any person other than a judge shall at any election, know-
ingly and wilfully put, or cause to be put, any ballot or ballots, or
other paper having the semblance thereof, into any box used at such
election for the reception of votes; or

(c)    If any judge of election shall knowingly or wilfully cause
or permit any ballot or ballots to be in said box at the opening of
the polls, and before the voting shall have begun; or

(d)    If any judge shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently put
any ballot or other paper having the semblance thereof in any such
box at any such election, unless the same shall be offered by a
voter whose name shall have been found and kept upon the regis-
try, as hereinbefore provided, or who shall be entitled to vote
under this article; or

(e)    If any judge or other officer or person shall fraudulently
during the canvass of ballots in any manner change, substitute or
alter any ballot taken from the ballot box then being canvassed, or
from any ballot box which has not been canvassed, or shall remove
any ballot or semblance thereof from or add any ballot or semblance
thereof to the ballots taken from the ballot box then being can-
vassed, or from any ballot box which has not been canvassed.

24-11. Defacing or removing records.

(a)    Every judge or other officer or person having the custody of
any record, registry of voters or copy thereof, oath, return or state-
ments of votes, certificate, poll list, or any papers, documents, ballots,
coupons or vote of any description in this article directed to be
made, filed or preserved, who is guilty of concealing, wilfully de-
stroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing
or secreting the whole or any part thereof, or who shall fraudulently
make any entry, erasure or alteration therein except as allowed and
directed by the provisions of this article, or who permits any other
person to do so, shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged guilty
of a felony and shall be punished for each and every offense by im-
prisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than
ten years.

(b)    Every person not such an official as is mentioned herein-
above in this section, who is guilty of any of the acts therein speci-
fied, or who advises, procures or abets the commission of the same,
or any of them, shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of
a felony. For each and every such offense he shall be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more
than ten years; and such offense shall be deemed to have been com-
mitted whether such person has or had any custody or control,
rightful or otherwise, over, or is charged with any duty in relation
to, said records, registers, ballots, coupons or other documents.

24-12. Perjury.

Any person who shall be convicted of wilfully and falsely swear-
ing or affirming in taking any oath or affirmation prescribed by or