19-1620.   Duties of clerks of election; penalties.The clerks at the polls, in addition to the duties now prescribed bylaw, shall enter on the poll books kept by them, in columns prepared forthat purpose, opposite the name of each person voting, the same statementor minute as hereinbefore required of the board making the registry; butsuch entry is not to be made by them if the registry contains correctly thename and residence of such voter; and in all cases said clerks shall enterin a column opposite the name of each person not registered the words, "Notregistered." In cities, every elector, at the time of offering his vote,shall truly state the street in which he resides, and if the house, lodgingor tenement in which he resides is numbered, the number thereof. And theclerks of the polls, in case the name of such elector is not registered,shall truly enter, in the appropriate column of the poll list, opposite thename of the elector, the street and number, or other description of theresidence of such elector. In case of the refusal to make the statement asaforesaid, the vote of such an elector shall not be received.

      Any person who shall willfully make any false statement in relationthereto shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of fiftydollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of ten days, orby both such fine and imprisonment.

      History:   L. 1881, ch. 89, § 8; March 4; R.S. 1923, 19-1620.