of thirty meters of the polling place, nor shall any person solicit votes or do any electioneering  within such distance. TASCEc [1582-21.] S ECTION  546 . Persons Prohibited from Influencing Elections.  — No judge of first instance, justice of the peace, or treasurer, fiscal, or assessor of any province and no officer or employee of the Philippine Constabulary or of the Bureau of Education shall  aid any candidate or exert influence in any manner in any election or take part therein otherwise than by exercising the right to vote, under penalty of being deprived of his office and being disqualified to hold any public office whatever for a term of fi ve years. [1948-3.] S ECTION  547 . Prohibition Against Interference by Police in Election. — No member of the municipal police shall in any manner intervene in any election, except for the maintenance of public order. Any member of the police entitled to vote may do so, but sha ll not act as election officer nor solicit votes for any candidate. TASCEc [2169-32.] S ECTION  548 . Method of Voting — Delivery of Ballot.  — While the polls are open the voters who are entitled to vote and who have not already voted at that election may enter within the guard rail of the polling place in such order that, besides the persons  lawfully in such place for purposes other than voting, there shall not be within said place at any one time more than twice as many voters as there are voting booths therein. Upon entering, the voter shall give to one of the inspectors his name and residen ce together with such other information concerning himself as should appear on the registration list and may be requested of him by any of the inspectors. Said inspector shall then distinctly announce the voter's name and residence in a tone loud enough to  be plainly heard throughout the polling place. If such person be entitled to vote and be not challenged, or, if challenged and the same be decided in his favor, the poll clerk shall deliver to him one ballot correctly folded. No person other than an inspe ctor or poll clerk shall deliver to any person any official ballot, and no inspector shall deliver or permit to be delivered any official ballot to any person other than a voter at the time of voting, as herein provided, nor more than one ballot to such vo ter at one time. TASCEc [1582-22.] S ECTION  549 . Preparation of Ballot by Voter. — The voter on receiving his ballot shall forthwith retire alone to one of the empty polling booths Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 175