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Delaware Statutes § 3163 Receiving illegal or refusing legal votes; penalty

⤴ Up to Subchapter IV: Procedure at Polling Places

Statute Text

Whoever, at any primary election, being a presiding officer or judge, knowingly and wilfully receives, or advises or consents to the receiving of, the vote of any person not entitled to vote at such primary election; or whoever, at any primary election, being a presiding officer or judge, knowingly and wilfully refuses to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote at such primary election, shall, for every such offense, pay $100 to any person who sues for the same or be fined not less than $100, and, in either case, be imprisoned until the judgments, fines and costs are paid in full or discharged by the court.

History

20 Del. Laws, c. 393, § 21; 27 Del. Laws, c. 66, § 1; Code 1915, § 1695; Code 1935, § 1783; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 3165.;

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