[82-79; 1791-19.] 

## Offenses Relative to Elections and Elective Officers 

## ARTICLE III 

S ECTION 2629 . Policeman Meddling in Election . — Any member of police who shall take part in any election contrary to the provisions of section five hundred and forty-seven of this Code shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred pesos or impri sonment for not more than six months, or both. 

[See 1582-23.] 

S ECTION 2630 . Fraud of Officer Touching Registration . — Any inspector or poll clerk who knowingly enters upon any registry or poll list or causes or allows to be entered thereon the name of any person as a voter in a district who is not a voter thereof, an d any inspector of election who refuses or willfully votes to refuse or willfully neglects to enter the name of any qualified applicant for registration upon the registry list, or who knowingly prevents or seeks to prevent the registration of any legally q ualified voter, or who is guilty of any fraud or corrupt conduct in the duties of his office, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than two hundred pesos nor more than five hundred p esos, or both. 

[1582-29.] 

S ECTION 2631 . Premature Declaration of Result of Election . — Any election officer who, before the public declaration of the result of a vote at an election, as provided by law, makes any statement of the number of ballots cast, of the number of votes given for any person, of the name of any person who has voted, of the name of any person who has not voted, or any other fact tending to show the state of the polls, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by a fine of not more than t wo hundred pesos, or both. 

[1582-29.] 

S ECTION 2632 . Fraud of Officer in Receiving or Counting Ballot — Failure to Perform Official Duty . — Any member of any board of registration, board of inspectors, or board of canvassers who knowingly makes any false count of ballots or votes, or who willfu lly makes or signs a false statement or declaration of the result of a ballot, vote, or election or who willfully refuses to receive any ballot offered by a person qualified to vote at such election, or who willfully alters, defaces, or destroys any ballot  cast, or voting or registry list used thereat, or who 

