§ 3. Persons excluded from the right of suffrage.

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§ 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.