§11-46-138. Offenses of electors.

(a) Any elector who takes or removes or attempts to take or remove any ballot from the polling place at a municipal election before the close of the polls or who remains longer than the time allowed by law in the booth or compartment after being notified his time has expired must, on conviction, be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00.

(b) Any person who willfully makes to the inspectors of a municipal election a false declaration asserting his inability to prepare his ballot without assistance must, on conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00.

(c) Any qualified elector at any municipal election who takes or receives any money or other valuable thing upon the condition that the same shall be paid at any future time in exchange for the vote of such elector for any particular candidate or the promise to vote for any particular candidate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00. No witness shall be prosecuted for any offense under this subsection as to which he testifies before the grand jury.

(d) Any person who falsely impersonates another and thereby or otherwise fraudulently casts a vote in a municipal election or having voted at such election votes a second time, whether in the same ward or another, shall, on conviction, be punished by hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months or by a fine of not less than $500.00 nor more than $2,000.00 or by both fine and sentence to hard labor.

(e) Any absentee voter who shall willfully make or subscribe to an oath falsely in order to qualify himself to vote at a municipal election shall, on conviction, be punished by hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months or by a fine of not less than $500.00 nor more than $2,000.00 or by both fine and sentence to hard labor.

(f) Any person who takes a challenged voter's oath or any person who makes an affidavit of identity for a challenged voter willfully and falsely shall, on conviction, be punished by hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months or by a fine of not less than $500.00 nor more than $2,000.00 or by both fine and sentence to hard labor.

(g) Any person voting at any municipal election who has not registered and taken and subscribed to the registration oath must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not less than one nor more than six months.

(Acts 1961, No. 664, p. 868, §48; Acts 1976, No. 361, p. 426, §19.)