Violations declared a felony. Penalty.

Offences at elections, what are.

or induce or attempt or offer to compel or induce, by such means, or any unlawful means, any judge of election or other officer of registration any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such district, or to register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or any name of any person, except as provided in this chapter; or shall knowingly, or willfully, or fraudulently interfere with, hinder or delay any judge of election or other officer of registration in the discharge of his duties, or counsel, advise, or induce, or attempt to induce any such judge or other officer to refuse or neglect to comply with or to perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribing or regulating the same, or shall aid counsel, procure, or advise any voter, person, judge of election, or other officer of registration, to do any act of law forbidden, or in this chapter constituted an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison not less than one nor more than five years.

SEC. 56. If, at any election hereafter held in any city governed by the provisions of this act any person shall falsely personate any elector or other person, and vote, or attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of such elector or other persons, or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in or upon any false, assumed, or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own; or shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently vote more than once for

any candidate for the same office, except as authorized by law, or shall vote or attempt or offer to vote in any election district without having a lawful right to vote therein, or vote more than once, or vote in more than one election district, or having once voted, shall vote or attempt, or offer to vote again; or shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently do an unlawful act to secure a right, or an opportunity to vote for himself or for any other person, or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, or reward, or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence any elector in giving his vote, or prevent or hinder or attempt to prevent or hinder any qualified voter from freely exercising the rights of suffrage, or by any such means induce, or attempt to induce, any such voter to refuse to exercise any such right; or shall by any such means, or otherwise, compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce, any judge of election or other officer of election in any election district, to receive the vote of any person not legally qualified or entitled to vote at said election in such district; or shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently interfere with, delay or hinder in any manner any judge of election, poll clerk, or other officer of election, in the discharge of his duties; or by any of such means or other unlawful means, knowingly, willfully or fraudulently counsel, advise, induce, or attempt to induce any judge of election, poll clerk, or other officer of election, whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce, or declare the result of

to be a felony.

any such election, or to give or make any certificate, document, report, return, or other evidence in relation thereto, to refuse to neglect to comply with his duty, or to violate any law regulating the same or to receive the vote of any person in any election district not entitled to vote therein, or refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote thereSame, declared in; or shall aid, counsel, or advise, procure, or assist any voter, person, or judge of election or other officer of election, to do any act by law forbidden, or in this chapter constituted an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished for each and every such offense, by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one year nor more than five years.

Violations by poll clerks or judge declared a felony.

Shall exclude illegal votes and receive legal.

SEC. 57. If any poll clerk, or any judge of election performing the duties of poll clerk, shall willfully keep a false poll list, or shall knowingly insert in his poll list any false statement or any false statement or any name or statement, or any check, letter, or mark, except as in this chapter provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one nor more than five years.

SEC. 58. Every judge of election who shall willfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such election, or shall willfully receive a vote from any person who has been duly challenged

violation.

in relation to his right to vote at such election with- Penalty for out exacting from such person such oath or other proof of qualification as may be required by law, or who shall willfully omit to challenge any person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects not to be entitled to a vote and who has not been chal

lenged by any other person, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not more than two years.

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ing, or deliver

ing false

returns, punishment for.

SEC. 59. Every judge of election, member of Making, signany board of canvassers, messenger, poll clerk, other officer authorized to take part in or perform any duty in relation to any canvass or official statement of the votes cast at any election, who shall willfully make, sign publish or deliver any false return of the result of such election, knowing the same to be false, or who shall willfully deface, destroy, or conceal any statement or certificate intrusted to his care or custody shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than two nor more than five years.

fraudulent

clared a felony.

SEC. 60. If any person other than a judge of Depositing of election shall, at any such election, knowingly and ballots dewillfully 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 if any such judge shall knowingly and willfully cause or permit any ballots to be in said box at the opening of the polls and before voting shall have commenced, or shall knowingly and

Neglect of duty or fraudulent conduct by

election officer,

Destroying, secreting, and

willfully or fraudulently put any ballot or other paper having the semblance thereof into any such box at any such election, unless the same shall be offered by an elector, and his name shall have been found and checked upon the register as hereinbefore provided; or if any such 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 box then being canvassed, or from any box which has not been canvassed, or shall remove any ballot or semblance therefrom, or add any ballot or semblance thereof, the ballots taken from the box then being canvassed, every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one nor more than five years.

SEC. 61. If any judge of election, poll clerk, or other officer of registration, revision, election, or canvass of whom any duty is required in this chapter or by the general election laws of this state (so far as the same are consistent with the provisions of this chapter), shall be guilty of any willful neglect of such duty, or of any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execution of the same, he shall on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one nor more than five years.

SEC. 62. Every judge of election, poll clerk, altering elec. or other officer or person having the custody of any record, register of votes or copy thereof, oath, re

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declared a felony.