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§ 5144. Unauthorized release of absentee vote information; penalty.

§ 5144. Unauthorized release of absentee vote information; penalty. (a) Any person who knowingly or intentionally releases, transfers, distributes, or otherwise permits or facilitates the distribution of information relating to the number of absentee votes cast in favor or against any particular candidate or measure prior to the close of the polls on the day […]

§ 5161. Intimidation of election officers; penalty.

§ 5161. Intimidation of election officers; penalty. If any person, firm, corporation or employer existing or doing business in this State, hinders, coerces or intimidates or attempts to hinder, coerce or intimidate any person who has been appointed an election officer under the laws of this State from qualifying and performing such person’s duties as […]

§ 5162. Intimidation of electors; penalty.

§ 5162. Intimidation of electors; penalty. If any person, or corporation existing or doing business in this State, hinders, controls, coerces or intimidates or attempts to hinder, control, coerce or intimidate any qualified elector of this State from or in the exercise of the elector’s right to vote at any general, special or municipal election […]

§ 5163. Liability of corporation or officers.

§ 5163. Liability of corporation or officers. In any trial under § 5161 or § 5162 of this title, the acts of any officer of a corporation, insofar as they affect or concern an employee or servant of such corporation, shall be taken and held to be the acts of the corporation, whether general or […]

§ 5164. Liability of stakeholder for paying election bet.

§ 5164. Liability of stakeholder for paying election bet. If any stakeholder, or person with whom any money or thing, laid as a wager or bet on the result of any election, or on the election or defeat of any candidate or person voted for thereat, shall be deposited, shall at any time either before […]

§ 5127. Bribery of person expecting to be election or registration officer; penalty.

§ 5127. Bribery of person expecting to be election or registration officer; penalty. Whoever bribes or attempts to bribe anyone expecting to hold any official position under the election or registration laws of this State, either as registrar, inspector, judge or otherwise, by giving money or the promise of money, office or the promise of […]

§ 5143. Candidate for General Assembly not to make written pledge; penalty.

§ 5143. Candidate for General Assembly not to make written pledge; penalty. (a) No candidate for State Senator or Representative in the General Assembly shall make any written pledge to give or withhold that candidate’s own vote on any proposed law or legislation, nor shall any other person seek to influence any such candidate in […]

§ 5128. Fraudulent voting; penalty.

§ 5128. Fraudulent voting; penalty. Whoever, at any general or special election: (1) Falsely personates any elector or other person and votes or attempts or offers to vote in or upon the name of such elector or other person; or (2) Votes or attempts to vote in or upon the name of any other person […]

§ 5129. False entries by clerk of election.

§ 5129. False entries by clerk of election. Whoever, being a clerk of election or other election officer performing the duty of such clerk: (1) Wilfully keeps a false poll list; or (2) Knowingly inserts in that clerk of election’s or election officer’s poll list any false statement, or any name, statement, check, letter or […]

§ 5130. Failure of election officer to perform duties.

§ 5130. Failure of election officer to perform duties. Whoever, being an election officer, wilfully: (1) Excludes any vote duly tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such election; or (2) Receives a vote from any person who has been duly challenged in relation to such person’s right […]