Whoever before the opening of the election registers any vote on a voting machine or at any time tampers with, disarranges, defaces, impairs in any manner or destroys a voting machine or any part thereof, including the ballots on its face, shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $500 and may be imprisoned not less than 1 nor more than 2 years.

19 Del. Laws, c. 37, § ?13; 27 Del. Laws, c. 65, § ?11; Code 1915, § ?1730; Code 1935, § ?1819; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?5117; 49 Del. Laws, c. 18, § ?2; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?120;