The casting of more than one ballot at an election is an offense where the voter is entitled to cast but one; 6 and it cannot be urged as a defense that the first vote was illegal and could not be counted.7

So one who impersonates another and votes or attempts to vote at an election under such impersonation, commits an offense.8

Of course it is a crime against the election laws for one to vote at an election who is not a qualified voter. By some statutes this offense is a felony, by others a misdemeanor.9

3 State vs. Downs, 148 Ind. 324.

4 Mason vs. State, 55 Ark., 529.

5 State vs. Philbrick, 84 Me., 562.

6 Com. vs. Silsbee, 9 Mass., 417. 7 State vs. Perkins, 42 Vt., 399. 8 Fleet vs. State, 74 Md., 552.

Thus the voting in a township or precinct in which a person does not reside is an offense under a statute requiring a residence for a specific length of time.10 And ignorance of the law is no excuse for such unlawful act.

So a person of foreign birth is not entitled to vote until he becomes a citizen by being naturalized as required by law, and not until he shall have resided in the state, county and precinct the length of time required by statute.11