Section 17-7-15Voter to sign name on poll list; exceptions.
In every election held in this state, the voter himself shall sign his name on one of the poll lists or lists of persons who vote in the election, required by law to be maintained at each polling place; and no person shall record on this list the name of any voter for him, except where the voter, because of physical handicap, is unable to write his own name on the poll list; in which case an election official shall write the name of such voter on said list together with the cause of assistance and shall sign his own name on the poll list on the same line with the name of the voter. If the voter is unable to sign his name because of illiteracy, his name shall be written for him and the voter shall make his mark upon the poll list, in the presence of any of the election officials, and the election official witnessing the act shall record his name, as witness, on the same line with the name of the voter.
Any person who wilfully and intentionally signs on the poll list the name of any person other than himself, including any signing by mark, in violation of the provisions of this section, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less than one nor more than five years.
(Acts 1953, No. 201, p. 266, §§1, 2.)
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