list
of persons who may have registered or voted; to attend in each
election district or voting precinct at the times and places
fixed for the registration of voters, and at all times
or places when and where the registration may by law be
scrutinized and the names of registered voters be marked
for challenge; and also to attend, at all times for holding
elections, the polls in such district or precinct.

SEC. 2022. The marshal and his general deputies, and such
special deputies, shall keep the peace and support and protect
the supervisors of election in the discharge of their duties,
preserve order at such places of registration and at such
polls, prevent fraudulent registration and fraudulent voting
thereat, or fraudulent conduct on the part of any officer of
election, and immediately, either at the place of registration
or polling place, or elsewhere, and either before or after
registering or voting, to arrest and take into custody, with
or without process, any person who commits, or attempts or
offers to commit, any of the acts or offenses prohibited
herein, or who commits any offense against the laws of the
United States; but no person shall be arrested without process
for any offense not committed in the presence of the marshal
or his general or special deputies, or either of them, or of
the supervisors of election, or either of them; and for
the purposes of arrest or the preservation of the peace the
supervisors of election shall, in the absence of the marshal's
deputies, or if required to assist such deputies, have the
same duties and powers as deputy marshals; nor shall any
person, on the day of such election, be arrested without
process for any offense committed on the day of registration.

SEC. 2023. Whenever any arrest is made under any provision of
this title, the person so arrested shall forthwith be brought
before a commissioner, judge, or court of the United States
for examination of the offenses alleged against him; and such
commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto
as authorized by law in case of crimes against the United
States.

SEC. 2024. The marshal or his general deputies, or such
special deputies as are thereto specially empowered by him in
writing, and under his hand and seal, whenever he or either
or any of them is forcibly resisted in executing their duties
under this title, or shall b