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Gregory—Political Corruption. 
duced any other person to vote or refrain from voting at any 
election; and any person so offending shall be guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than one month and not more than one 
year. 
Sec. 3. Any candidate for a public office, or any person 
seeking to become the nominee of any party as such candidate, 
who, within ten days prior to any primary election or meeting 
held to select delegates to a convention to nominate a candidate 
for the public office which he seeks to obtain, or who within 60 
days prior to the election whereat an incumbent for the office so 
sought by him is chosen, corruptly, by himself or by any other 
person, directly or indirectly gives or provides or pays, wholly 
or in part, or promises to pay wholly or in part, the expense 
f giving or providing any meat, drink, entertainment or pro¬ 
vision to or for any person for the purpose of corruptly influ 
encing that person or any other person to give or refrain from 
giving his vote at such election, shall be guilty of a misde¬ 
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined twenty-five 
dollars for each offense. 
Sec. 4. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by 
himself, or any other person on his behalf, make use of or 
threaten to make use of any force, violence or restraint or inflict 
or threaten to inflict, by himself or by any other person, any 
temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or 
against any person in order to induce or compel such person to 
vote or refrain from voting at any election, or who shall, by ab¬ 
duction, duress or any fraudulent device or contrivance, impede 
or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or 
shall thereby compel, induce or prevail upon any elector either 
to give or refrain from giving his vote at anj alection, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be 
punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one 
month and not more than one year. 
Sec. 5. A person shall, for all purposes of this act, be 
deemed guilty of the offense of personation, who, at any elec¬ 
tion held pursuant to the laws of the State, applies for a ballot 
paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be 
