(235 ILCS 5/9-16) (from Ch. 43, par. 179)
Sec. 9-16.
Any clerk, judge of election, police officer or
other officer of
the law, who shall refuse or neglect or fail to discharge any duty imposed
by this Article, and any one who signs a petition provided for in this
Article, knowing he is not qualified to do so, or who files with the clerk
any such petition or any sheet or other part thereof knowing that it
contains the signature of a person not qualified to sign the same, or who
receives, requests or demands or gives, offers or promises any reward for
the signing or the refraining from signing of any such petition, or who by
treating or giving alcoholic liquor or anything else, or by threats to
injure another in person or property, or by betting or other device, either
directly or indirectly influences or attempts to influence anyone to sign
or refrain from signing any such petition, shall be guilty of a violation
of this Article and punishable therefor.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)
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