Election offenses.
Section 42
SEC. 42. Election offenses. — (a) The following shall be guilty of a serious election offense punishable in accordance with the provisions of this Decree: Any person who deliberately makes any false or untruthful statement relative to any of the data or information required in the voter's affidavit as herein prescribed; Any member of the citizens election committee who knowingly approves the application of a person who does not possess all the qualifications or who possesses, any of the disqualifications prescribed by law for voters, or who knowingly disapproves the application or a person who possesses all such qualifications and none of the disqualifications; Any person who registers in substitution for another whether with or without the latter's knowledge and/or consent; Any person who falsifies any voter's affidavit or the current list of voters; Any person who deliberately imprints blurred or indistinct thumbmark on any of the copies of the application for registration, or in the corresponding space on the voter's voting records; or any member of the citizens election committee who deliberately or through negligence causes or allows the imprinting of blurred or indistinct thumbmarks in any of the above-mentioned election records; or any person who tampers with the thumbmarks in said election records; Any person who delays, or hinders or obstructs another from registering as a voter or from taking steps leading thereto; Any person who shall falsely certify or identify another as a bona fide resident of a particular place or locality for the purpose of securing the latter's registration as a voter; Any member of the citizens election committee or any person acting on their behalf who fails, without cause, to post or to give any of the notices or to make any of the reports required by this Decree; Any person who being ineligible for appointment as member of the citizens' election committee, accepts an appointment to said committee, assumes office and actually serves as member thereof; or any public officer or any person acting on his behalf who appoints such ineligible person knowing him to be ineligible; Any person who, without authority, acts as, or assumes or performs any function of, as member of the citizens election committee; Any public official, or any person acting in this behalf, who relieves any member of the citizens' election committee or who changes or causes the change of the assignment of members of the Committee without authority of the Commission; and Any person who, in the presence or within the hearing of the citizens election committee during any of its meetings, conducts himself in a disorderly manner in such a way as to interrupt or disrupt its work or proceedings to the end of preventing said body from performing its functions, either partly or totally.