§ 17-130. Misdemeanor in relation to elections. Any person who:\n 1. Acts as an inspector of election or as a clerk at an election,\nwithout being able to read or write the English language, or without\nbeing otherwise qualified to hold such office; or,\n 2. Being an inspector of election, knowingly and wilfully permits or\nsuffers any person to vote who is not entitled to vote thereat; or,\n 3. Wilfully and unlawfully obstructs, hinders or delays, or aids or\nassists in obstructing or delaying any elector on his way to a\nregistration or polling place, or while he is attempting to register or\nvote; or,\n 4. Electioneers on election day or on days of registration within one\nhundred feet, as defined herein, from a polling place. Said prohibition\nshall not apply to a building or roo
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§ 17-130. Misdemeanor in relation to elections. Any person who:\n 1. Acts as an inspector of election or as a clerk at an election,\nwithout being able to read or write the English language, or without\nbeing otherwise qualified to hold such office; or,\n 2. Being an inspector of election, knowingly and wilfully permits or\nsuffers any person to vote who is not entitled to vote thereat; or,\n 3. Wilfully and unlawfully obstructs, hinders or delays, or aids or\nassists in obstructing or delaying any elector on his way to a\nregistration or polling place, or while he is attempting to register or\nvote; or,\n 4. Electioneers on election day or on days of registration within one\nhundred feet, as defined herein, from a polling place. Said prohibition\nshall not apply to a building or room that has been maintained for\npolitical purposes at least six months prior to said election or\nregistration days, except that no political displays, placards or\nposters shall be exhibited therefrom. For the purposes of this section,\nthe one hundred feet distance shall be deemed to include a one hundred\nfoot radial measured from the entrances, designated by the inspectors of\nelections, to a building where the election or registration is being\nheld.\n 5. Removes any official ballot from a polling place before the closing\nof the polls; or,\n 6. Unlawfully goes within the guard-rail of any polling place or\nunlawfully remains within such guard-rail after having been commanded to\nremove therefrom by any inspector of election; or,\n 7. Enters a voting booth with any voter or remains in a voting booth\nwhile it is occupied by any voter, or opens the door of a voting booth\nwhen the same is occupied by a voter, with the intent to watch such a\nvoter while engaged in the preparation of his ballot, except as\nauthorized by this chapter; or,\n 8. Being or claiming to be a voter, permits any other person to be in\na voting booth with him while engaged in the preparation of his ballot,\nexcept as authorized by this chapter, without openly protesting against\nand asking that such person be ejected; or,\n 9. Having lawfully entered a voting booth with a voter, requests,\npersuades or induces such voter to vote any particular ballot or for any\nparticular candidate, or makes or keeps any memorandum of anything\noccurring within the booth, or directly or indirectly, reveals to\nanother the name of any candidate voted for by such voter; or,\n 10. Shows his ballot after it is prepared for voting, to any person so\nas to reveal the contents, or solicits a voter to show the same; or,\n 11. Places any mark upon his ballot, or does any other act in\nconnection with his ballot with the intent that it may be identified as\nthe one voted by him; or,\n 12. Places any mark upon, or does any other act in connection with a\nballot or paster ballot, with the intent that it may afterwards be\nidentified as having been voted by any particular person; or,\n 13. Receives an official ballot from any person other than one of the\nclerks or inspectors having charge of the ballots; or,\n 14. Not being an inspector of election or clerk, delivers an official\nballot to a voter; or,\n 15. Not being an inspector of election, receives from any voter a\nballot prepared for voting; or,\n 16. Fails to return to the inspectors of election, before leaving the\npolling place or going outside the guard-rail, each ballot not voted by\nhim; or,\n 17. Wilfully defaces, injures, mutilates, destroys or secretes any\nvoting maching which belongs to any municipality or board of elections\nfor use at elections, and any person who commits or attempts to commit a\nfraud in the use of any such voting machine during election; or,\n 18. Not being lawfully authorized, makes or has in his possession a\nkey to a voting machine which has been adopted and will be used in\nelections; or,\n 19. Not being an inspector or clerk of election, handles a voted or\nunvoted ballot or stub thereof, during the canvass of votes at an\nelection; or,\n 20. Intentionally opens a voter's ballot envelope or examines the\ncontents thereof after the receipt of the envelope by the board of\nelections and before the close of the polls at the election except as\nprovided in section 9-209 of this chapter; or,\n 21. Willfully disobeys any lawful command of the board of inspectors,\nor any member thereof; or,\n 22. Induces or attempts to induce any poll clerk, election inspector,\nelection coordinator, or officer, clerk or employee of the board of\nelections discharging any duty or performing any act required or made\nnecessary by the election law, to do any act in violation of his duty or\nin violation of the election law; or,\n 23. Not having been appointed or named an inspector of elections or\nclerk and not having taken the oath for such office shall wear or\ndisplay any button, badge or emblem identifying or purporting to\nidentify such person as an inspector of election or clerk, is guilty of\na misdemeanor.\n