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Elective Franchise. 1. Furnishes, or engages to pay or deliver any money or property, for the purpose of procuring the attendance of voters at the polls, or for the purpose of compensating any person for procuring attendance of voters at the polls, except for the conveyance of voters who are sick, poor, or infirm; or,

2. Furnishes, or engages to pay or deliver any money or property, for any purpose intended to promote the election of any candidate, except for the expenses of holding and conducting public meetings for the discussion of public questions, and of printing and circulating ballots, handbills and other papers, previous to such election—is guilty of misdemeanor.

§ 6261. Every person who fraudulently alters the ballot of any elector, or substitutes one ballot for another, or furnishes any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names, or who intentionally practices any fraud upon any elector to induce him to deposit a ballot as his vote, and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or otherwise to defraud him of his vote, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6262. Every person who wilfully and without lawful authority obstructs, hinders or delays any elector on his way to any poll where an election shall be held, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6263. Every person who votes more than once at any election, or who offers to vote after having once voted, either in the same or in another election district, shall be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 6264. Every person knowing himself not to be a qualified voter, who votes, or offers to vote at any election, shall be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months.

§ 6265. Every person who procures, aids, assists, counsels, or advises another to give his vote, knowing that such person is disqualified, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 6266. Every person who procures or counsels another to enter any town, ward, or election district for the purpose of giving his vote at an election, knowing that such person is not entitled so to vote, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6267. Every person who, at any election, knowingly votes or offers to vote in any election district in which he does not reside, or in which he is not authorized by law to vote, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6268. Every person who votes at any annual township meeting, in a township in which he does not reside, or who offers to vote at any annual township meeting after having voted at an annual township meeting held in another township within the same year, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6269. Every person who, having been convicted of any bribery or felony, thereafter offers to vote at any election with out having been pardoned and restored to all the rights of a citizen, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6270. Every person who causes his name to be registered as that an elector, upon any registry of voter authorized by law to be kept in any town, city or election district of this territory, knowing that he is not a qualified voter within the terri-