17-140 - Furnishing money or entertainment to induce attendance at polls.

§  17-140.  Furnishing  money or entertainment to induce attendance at  polls.  Any person who directly or indirectly by himself or through  any  other person in connection with or in respect of any election during the  hours of voting on a day of a general, special or primary election gives  or  provides, or causes to be given or provided, or shall pay, wholly or  in part, for any meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or  provision  to  or  for  any  person, other than persons who are official representatives of  the board of elections or political parties and committees  and  persons  who  are engaged as watchers, party representatives or workers assisting  the candidate, except any such  meat,  drink,  tobacco,  refreshment  or  provision  having a retail value of less than one dollar, which is given  or provided to any person in a polling place without any  identification  of  the person or entity supplying such provisions, is guilty of a Class  A misdemeanor.