§ 1823Election Officers Permitting Unregistered Electors to Vote; Challenges; Refusing to Permit Qualified Electors to Vote

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Any judge or inspector of election who
permits any person to vote at any primary or election who is
not registered in accordance with law, except a person in actual
military service or a person as to whom a court of competent
jurisdiction has ordered that he shall be permitted to vote,
or who permits any registered elector to vote knowing that such
registered elector is not qualified to vote, whether or not
such person has been challenged, or who permits any person who
has been lawfully challenged to vote at any primary or election
without requiring the proof of the right of such person to vote
which is required by law, or who refuses to permit any duly
registered and qualified elector to vote at any primary or
election, with the knowledge that such elector is entitled to
vote, shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not
exceeding fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, and to undergo
an imprisonment of not more than seven (7) years, or both.
   (1823 amended Feb. 13, 1998, P.L.72, No.18)

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