No Liquor in Polling Places.

Whoever, in a polling place has in his possession any intoxicating liquor, shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct, and the commissioner shall order such person to remove such liquor, or to withdraw himself from such place, and on his refusing or neglecting to obey such order, shall direct any police officer or other person present to take him from the place and confine him. in some convenient place until the election is completed. The person so refusing shall, for each such offense be punished as provided in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Refusing to Do Duty.

2912. [Sec. 31.] Any officer, (whether State, parochial, or municipal) or any person or member of any committee, or any commissioner, clerk or special deputy of any political party coming under the provisions of this Act, who shall wilfully refuse to perform any duty imposed upon him, by any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $50.00 and not more than $500.00, and be imprisoned for not less than two months and not more than one year in the parish jail, and shall be ineligible for four years to hold any office of trust or profit in this State.

Penalty for False Answer.

2913. [Sec. 32.] Any person offering to vote, who shall, under the oath administered by any of the commissioners of such election, wilfully, untruly, or falsely answer any pertinent question asked by any election commissioner, or make mis-statements, intended to mislead and to deceive the commissioners of election, for the purpose of voting, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Omission of Official Duty.

2914. [Sec. 33.] If any commissioner, clerk, or any other officer whatever, assisting or engaged in conducting any election, or charged with any duty in reference to any election, shall designedly omit to do any official duty required by law; or designedly do any illegal act in relation to any general or special primary election by which act or omission the votes taken at any such election in any district shall be lost, or the electors thereof shall be deprived of their suffrage at such election, or shall designedly do any act which shall render such election void, or

shall be guilty of any corrupt conduct or partiality in his official capacity at such election, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Repeating.

2915. [Sec. 34.] [Sec. 34.] Any person who shall vote or who shall offer to vote at any primary election, held under this Act, who has voted at the same or at any other precinct on the same day, and for the same purpose, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Permitting Fraudulent Voting.

2916. [Sec. 35.] Any commissioner or clerk at any primary election who shall knowingly permit any fraudulent vote to be cast, or who shall knowingly receive or deposit in the ballot box a ballot offered by any person not qualified to vote, in that box and at that election, or by any person who has previously voted at such election, or who shall in any way knowingly procure any disqualified person to vote, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Officer Violating Act.

[Sec. 36.]

2917. [Sec. 36.] Any person intrusted with the performance of any duty, under the provisions of this Act, who after he shall have consented, been sworn and begun to perform the same, wilfully neglects or refuses to further perform such duty, or, who shall fraudulently act in contravention or violation of any of the provisions of this Act, or who performs or assists in any act, whether in voting, receiving or depositing ballots, or caring for the ballots or ballot boxes, or, who shall wilfully miscall, misread or fail to call or read the name of any person whose name is voted on any ballot, or, who wilfully enters on any tally sheet a greater or less number of votes for any person than such person actually received with intent to change the result of said election, or to impair or improve the chances of election of any candidate, or who knowingly permits any illegal voting or fraud in any manner, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Offering to Bribe or to Give Liquor.

2918. [Sec. 37.] If any person shall at any primary election herein provided for or prior thereto, buy any vote, or if any person shall in any manner intimidate or attempt to intimidate, by any threat, any voter to cast his vote in favor of or against any person or question, or if any person shall, at or prior to any primary election, offer any pecuniary consideration, reward or promise of reward to any voter, with the view, intention or expectation of influencing such voter to vote for or against any particular person or question, or in the real or supposed interest of any person or question, whether such vote be actually cast or not, or changed thereby or not such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than two months nor more than one year in the parish jail, or both, at the discretion of the Court; or if any person shall use, distribute or give away intoxicating liquors to the voters of any parish or ward in this State where the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited, in the real or supposed interest of any person or question with the view, intention or expectation that the voter will be influenced thereby to cast his vote in any particular way, whether the vote be cast or not, or changed thereby or not, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act. (Amd. Act 198, 1912, p. 394.)

Penalty for Handing in More Than One Ballot.

2919. [Sec. 38.] Any person who knowingly hands in two or more ballots folded together, or who adds or attempts to add any ballot to those legally and fairly polled, either by fraudulently introducing same into the ballot box before or after the ballots are counted, or who adds to or mixes with the ballots lawfully cast, other ballots, while the votes are being counted or canvassed, or at any other time, or at any time abstracts any ballots lawfully and fairly polled, with the intention to change the result of such election, or to change the count thereat in favor of or against any person voted for at such election, or carries away or destroys any tally sheets, ballots or ballot boxes for the purpose of affecting the returns, or of breaking up or invalidating such election, or who wilfully detains, mutilates or destroys any such election returns, or in any manner interferes

with the officers holding such election or conducting the canvass, or with the voters lawfully exercising their right of voting at such election or canvass to be peaceably held and fairly conducted, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Forging Returns.

2920. [Sec. 39.] Any person who forges or counterfeits returns of any primary election purporting to have been held at a precinct or designated polling place where no election was in fact held, or who substitutes forged or counterfeited returns of a primary election in place of true returns where an election was actually held, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

Penalty for Illegal Possession of Ballots.

2921. [Sec. 40.] It shall be unlawful for any person or persons before or during the conduct of any election held under this Act, to have in his or their possession any official ballot, and any one found in possession of such official ballot, except the proper legal custodians of same, shall be punished as provided for in Section 31 of this Act.

PRIMARY ELECTIONS FOR NOMINATION OF MAYORS AND COMMISSIONERS.

Mayor, Commissioners, etc., to Be Nominated by Primary.

2922. [Sec. 1, Act 230, 1914, p. 460.] In all cities which have adopted the commission form of government in accordance with Act 302 of 1910, of Act 207 of 1912, the candidates for Mayor and Commissioners and any other elective officers provided for in the charter of said cities, shall be nominated in a primary election to be held not less than seventy, nor more than ninety days prior to the general election.

"Other elective officers" not in title.

How Held.

2923. [Sec. 2.] The said primary election shall be held in accordance with the general primary election laws of the State of Louisiana governing the nomination of parochial officers for parishes and municipal officers for municipalities, and shall be under the control and government of a municipal executive com

mittee of the political organization holding said primary; and all returns shall be made to said committee, which is authorized to declare the nominee of the political organization holding said election.

Second Primary.

2924. [Sec. 3.] In case of any candidate not receiving a majority of all the votes polled at the first primary, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall enter a second primary to be held not more than four weeks after the first primary, and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes in the said second primary shall be declared the nominee of the political organization holding same.

When Only One Candidate.

2925. [Sec. 4.] In case there is only one candidate for any position to be voted on by the duly qualified electors of the political organization holding said primary, the Executive Committee of said political organization shall be authorized to declare the said candidate the nominee without holding any primary election.

Expenses of Primary, How Paid.

2926. [Sec. 5.] The expense of holding said primary election for the nomination of municipal officers shall be defrayed by the political organization holding same, and it shall have full supervision of the printing of the tickets and the distribution of same in accordance with all needful rules and regulations it may adopt governing said primary election.

Commissioners; Qualifications of Voting.

2927. [Sec. 6.] The Executive Committee of the political organization holding said primary shall select the commissioners of election to conduct the same, and no person shall be permitted to vote in the said primary unless he is duly registered as a member of the political organization conducting the said primary election for the nomination of candidates for municipal officers.

General Primary Law to Govern.

2928. [Sec. 7.] The said election shall be conducted in all particulars the same as may be provided in the general primary election laws of the State, and any violations of said primary election laws shall be subject to the same penalties as is provided