Section 17-16-49

Officers not to compare poll list with ballot.

Any manager, clerk, returning officer, watcher or chairman of an executive committee who compares the number on the poll list with the number of the ballot of any voter for the purpose of ascertaining how any voter voted, except in case of contest, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00.

(Code 1907, §6821; Code 1923, §3944; Code 1940, T. 17, §398.)