Section 49
SEC. 49. Section twenty-six hundred and thirty-nine of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2639. Fraud of officer in receiving or counting ballots—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 soils or mutilates any ballot for the purpose of rendering it void, or who willfully reads a name different from the one really written on the ballot, or who does not count votes legally cast for a candidate, for the sole reason that the initial of the middle name of such candidate has been omitted, or who willfully 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 willfully makes any false count or canvass, or who willfully declines or fails to perform any duty or obligation imposed by the Election Law, or any member of a municipal or provincial board of canvassers who amends or causes to be amended the statement of the inspectors, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than five years, and by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos nor more than two thousand pesos, and in all cases by deprivation of the right of suffrage and disqualification from public office for a period of not less than seven years nor more than fourteen years."