97-13-5 - Ballot boxes; holding election with box unlocked; reading ballot before putting in box. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-13-5. Ballot boxes; holding election with box unlocked; reading ballot before putting in box.
 

Any such manager who shall proceed to any election without having the ballot-box locked and secured in the manner directed by law, or who shall open and read or consent to any other person opening and reading any ballot given him to be deposited in the box at such election, before it is put into the box, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or both. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(6); 1857, ch. 64, art. 75; 1871, § 2539; 1880, § 2774; 1892, § 1046; 1906, § 1124; Hemingway's 1917, § 850; 1930, § 875; 1942, § 2101.