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Home » US Law » 2022 Delaware Code » Title 15 - Elections » Part IV » General Elections » Chapter 51. CRIMINAL OFFENSES » Subchapter II. Particular Offenses » § 5136. Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty.
§ 5136. Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty.

Whoever:

(1) Fraudulently changes or alters the ballot of any elector, or substitutes 1 ballot for another, or fraudulently furnishes any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names; or

(2) Intentionally practices any fraud upon any elector to induce the elector to deposit a ballot as that elector’s own vote and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom such elector intended to vote; or

(3) Otherwise defrauds the elector of the elector’s vote,

shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

19 Del. Laws, c. 39, § 44;  Code 1915, § 1803;  Code 1935, § 1892;  15 Del. C. 1953, § 5138;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;