Excerpt from Republican Political Handbook: For Public Speakers and Local Committees

Sec. 5522. Every person, whether with or without any authority, power or process, or pretended authority, power or process, of any State, Territory, or municipality, who obstructs, hinders, assaults, or by bribery, solicitation, or oth erwise, interferes with or prevents the supervisors Of election, or either of them, or the marshal or his general or special deputies, or either of them, in the performance of any duty required of them, or either of them, or which he or they, or either of them, may be authorized to perform by any law Of the United States, in the execution of process or otherwise, or who by any of the means before mentioned hinders or prevents the free attendance and presence at such places of registration or at such polls of election, or full and free access and egress to and from any such place of registration or poll of election, or in going to and from any such place Of registration or poll Of election, or to and from any room, where any such registration or election or can vase of votes, or of making any returns or certificates thereof, may be had, or who molests, interferes with, removes or ejects from any such place of registra tion or poll of election, or Of canvassing votes cast thereat, or Of making returns or certificates thereof, any supervisor of election, the marshal, or his general or special deputies, or either of them, or who threatens or attempts, or Offers so to do, Or refuses or neglects to aid and assist any supervisor of election or the mar shal or his general or special deputies, or either of them, in the performance of his or their duties, when required by him or them, or either of them, to give such aid and assistance, shall be liable to instant arrest without process, and shall be punished by imprisonment not more than two years, or by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall pay the costs of the prosecution.

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