2006 New York Code - Persons excluded from the right of suffrage.


 
    § 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay,
  offer  or  promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to
  another, to be paid or used, any money or  other  valuable  thing  as  a
  compensation  or  reward  for  the  giving  or  withholding a vote at an
  election, or who shall make any  promise  to  influence  the  giving  or
  withholding  any  such  vote,  or  who  shall make or become directly or
  indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the  result  of
  any  election,  shall vote at such election; and upon challenge for such
  cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that
  purpose shall receive his or her vote, shall swear or affirm before such
  officers that he or she has not received or offered, does not expect  to
  receive,  has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered
  or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any  money  or
  other  valuable  thing  as  a  compensation  or reward for the giving or
  withholding a vote at such election, and has not  made  any  promise  to
  influence the giving or withholding of any such vote, nor made or become
  directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the
  result of such election. The legislature shall enact laws excluding from
  the  right  of  suffrage  all  persons  convicted  of  bribery or of any
  infamous crime.


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