Opinion No. 20-2532
March 30, 1920
TO: Law Reporting Co., 17 E. 36th St., New York City.
Corrupt Practice Act.
OPINION
In reply to your letter to the Secretary of State, advise that in this state candidates for public office may not spend more than ten per cent of their first year's salary to procure their nomination or election. Such sum may be expended for such purposes advertising and donations to organizations, but such sum does not include necessary traveling expenses and hotel bills.
It is also unlawful for voters to be interfered with at the polls or for voters to remain in the polls an unnecessary length of time; votes must be cast in person, and it is unlawful to vote twice or attempt to vote twice, or under a wrong name.
The above are the principal features of the Corrupt Practice Act of this state, and the same may be found in the Compiled Laws of 1915, Chapter 32, together with some amendments in Chapter 69, Session Laws of 1917.