Penalties for unlawful possession of voting machine or keys and for tampering with machine. Any unauthorized person found in possession of any such voting machine or keys thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), imprisonment in the county jail, not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days. Any person willfully tampering or attempting to tamper with, disarrange, deface or impair in any manner whatsoever, or destroy any such voting machine while the same is in use at any election, or who shall, after such machine is locked in order to preserve the registration or record of any election made by the same, tamper or attempt to tamper with any voting machine, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the state prison of this state at hard labor for not less than three (3) nor more than ten (10) years.
§ Miss. Code § 23-15-447(untitled)
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