If any manager or clerk of any election shall knowingly make or consent to any false entry on the list of persons voting, or shall permit to be put in the ballot box any ballot not given by a voter, or shall take out of such box, or permit to be so taken out, any ballot deposited therein except in the manner prescribed by law, or shall, by any other act or omission, designedly destroy or change the ballots given by the electors, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(5); 1857, ch. 64, art. 74; 1871, § 2538; 1880, § 2773; 1892, § 1045; 1906, § 1123; Hemingway's 1917, § 849; 1930, § 874; 1942, § 2100. Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 430, HB 866, 5, eff. 1/1/2017. If any manager or clerk of any election shall knowingly make or consent to any false entry on the list of persons voting, or shall permit to be put in the ballot box any ballot not given by a voter, or shall take out of such box, or permit to be so taken out, any ballot deposited therein except in the manner prescribed by law, or shall, by any other act or omission, designedly destroy or change the ballots given by the electors, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(5); 1857, ch. 64, art. 74; 1871, § 2538; 1880, § 2773; 1892, § 1045; 1906, § 1123; Hemingway's 1917, § 849; 1930, § 874; 1942, § 2100. Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 430, HB 866, 5, eff. 1/1/2017. If any manager or clerk of any election shall knowingly make or consent to any false entry on the list of persons voting, or shall permit to be put in the ballot box any ballot not given by a voter, or shall take out of such box, or permit to be so taken out, any ballot deposited therein except in the manner prescribed by law, or shall, by any other act or omission, designedly destroy or change the ballots given by the electors, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(5); 1857, ch. 64, art. 74; 1871, § 2538; 1880, § 2773; 1892, § 1045; 1906, § 1123; Hemingway's 1917, § 849; 1930, § 874; 1942, § 2100. Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 430, HB 866, 5, eff. 1/1/2017. If any manager or clerk of any election shall knowingly make or consent to any false entry on the list of persons voting, or shall permit to be put in the ballot box any ballot not given by a voter, or shall take out of such box, or permit to be so taken out, any ballot deposited therein except in the manner prescribed by law, or shall, by any other act or omission, designedly destroy or change the ballots given by the electors, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(5); 1857, ch. 64, art. 74; 1871, § 2538; 1880, § 2773; 1892, § 1045; 1906, § 1123; Hemingway's 1917, § 849; 1930, § 874; 1942, § 2100.
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