910                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 392

(1)    Any person who knowingly or wilfully shall obstruct, hin-
der or assault, or by bribery, solicitation or otherwise, interfere
with any officer of registration, or any judge or challenger or
person designated, as provided in this article, to be present at the
reception or canvass of any ballots, in the performance of any duty
required by him or which he may by law be authorized or permitted
to perform; or

(2)    Any person by any of the means before mentioned or other-
wise unlawfully who shall, on any day of registration or revision of
registration or on the day of any election, hinder or prevent any
officer of registration, judge, challenger or person designated as pro-
vided in this article to be present at the reception or canvass of
ballots, in his free attendance and presence at the place of registra-
tion or revision of registration, or of election in the election district
or precinct in and for which he is appointed and designated to serve,
or in his full and free access and egress to and from any such place
of registration, revision of registration or of election, or to and from
any room where such registration, revision of registration or elec-
tion or canvass of votes or making of any return and certificates
thereof may be had; or

(3)    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, 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.

(b) Violation of this section is punishable 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 imprisonment.

24-18. Destroying ballot box; defacing election records.

If any person upon the day of any 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 wil-
fully or fraudulently conceal, secret or remove any such box from
the custody of the judges 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, he
shall, upon conviction 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.

24-19. Tampering with voting machines.

Any judge or other person who shall tamper with, or damage, or
attempt to damage, any voting machine to be used or being used in
any 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 imprisonment
for not more than one year, or to pay a fine not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars ($1,000), or both, in the discretion of the court.