§3-4-31 Tampering with voting machines; other dishonest practices; attempts; penalty.
§3-4-31. Tampering with voting machines; other dishonest practices; attempts; penalty.
Any person not an election officer or other public official who shall tamper or attempt to tamper with such voting machines, or in any way intentionally impair or attempt to impair, its use, and any such person who shall be guilty of or shall attempt any dishonest practice upon any such voting machine, or with or by its use, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than ten years.
Any clerk of a county court, county commissioner, ballot commissioner, election commissioner, or poll clerk, or any custodian, technician, or other public official authorized to take part in the holding of an election or in preparing for an election, who, with intent to cause or permit any voting machine to fail to register correctly all votes cast thereon, tampers with or disarranges such machine in any way, or any part or appliance thereof, or who causes or consents to the use of said machine for voting at any election with knowledge of the fact that the same is not in order, or not perfectly set and adjusted so that it will correctly register all votes cast thereon, or who, with the purpose of defrauding or deceiving any voter or of causing it to be doubtful for what ticket or candidate or candidates or proposition any vote is cast, or of causing it to appear on said machine that the votes cast for one ticket, candidate or proposition, were cast for another ticket, candidate or proposition, removes, changes or mutilates any ballot label on said machine or any part thereof, or does any other thing intended to interfere with the validity or accuracy of the election, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than ten years.