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§§ 6863-6872 '''§ 6863. Double voting or offer.''' 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 precinct or district, shall be punished by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 6864. Unqualified voting. Every person knowing himself not to be a qualified voter, who votes or offers to vote at any election, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months.

§ 6865. Procuring unqualified vote. 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.

§ 6866. Advising unqualified voting. Every person who procures or counsels another to enter any town, ward or election precinct or 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.

§ 6887. Voting in wrong precinct or district. Every person who, at any election, knowingly votes or offers to vote in any election precinct or district in which he does not reside, or in which he is not authorized by law to vote, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6868. Voting unlawfully at town meeting. 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.

'''§ 6869. Convicted felon. Denied vote.''' Every person who, having been convicted of any bribery or felony, thereafter offers to vote at any election without having been pardoned and restored to all the rights of a citizen, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6870. Unauthorized registration, how punished. Every person who causes his name to be registered as that of an elector, upon any registry of voters authorized by law to be kept in any town, city or election precinct or district of this state, knowing that he is not a qualified voter within the territorial limits covered by such registry, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year.

§ 6871. Personating registered voter. Every person who within any city, town or election precinct or district in this state in which a registry of qualified voters is by law authorized to be kept falsely personates a registered voter, and in such personating offers to vote at any election, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year.

§ 6872. False statement, preventing registration. Every person who, at the time of requesting his name to be registered as that of a qualified voter, upon any registry of voters authorized by law to he kept in any city, town or election precinct or district this state, or at the time of offering his vote at any election, knowingly makes any false statement or employs any false representation or false pretense or token, to procure his name to be registered or his vote to be received. is guilty of a misdemeanor.