Sec. 9-353. False return.
Sec. 9-353. False return. Any election official who, at the close of the polls, purposely causes the vote registered on the machine to be incorrectly taken down as to any
candidate or proposition voted on, or who knowingly causes to be made or signed any
false statement, certificate or return of any kind, of such vote, or who knowingly consents
to any such act, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not
more than five years or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 1221; 1953, S. 830d.)