Section 17-19-44. – Officer tampering with voting equipment.
§ 17-19-44. Officer tampering with voting equipment. Any person having the custody of voting equipment under this chapter, or any election or primary officer, who, with intent to cause or permit any voting equipment to fail to correctly register all votes cast, tampers with, injures, or disarranges the voting equipment in any way, or any […]
Section 17-19-45. – Fraudulent election returns.
§ 17-19-45. Fraudulent election returns. Any election or primary officer who, at the close of the polls, purposely causes the vote registered by any optical scan precinct count unit or related voting equipment to be incorrectly recorded or returned as to any candidate, person, or question, or who knowingly consents to these things, or any […]
Section 17-19-46. – False instructions as to marking a computer ballot and the operation of optical scan precinct count units.
§ 17-19-46. False instructions as to marking a computer ballot and the operation of optical scan precinct count units. Whoever, with intent to defraud a voter of his or her vote, or to cause a voter to lose his or her vote, gives in any way, or prints, writes, circulates, or causes to be written, […]
Section 17-19-47. – Improper possession of voting equipment keys or duplicates.
§ 17-19-47. Improper possession of voting equipment keys or duplicates. Any unauthorized person who makes a duplicate of, or has in his or her possession, a key to any voting equipment used at any election, or any election officer who keeps one or more keys to the voting equipment and fails or refuses to return […]
Section 17-19-48. – Posting of original voter registration records.
§ 17-19-48. Posting of original voter registration records. Following the return of the certified voting lists to the local boards, each board shall cause the original registration records to reflect the appropriate voting facts from the immediately preceding election and shall also post the appropriate voting facts set forth in the list of absentee voters […]
Section 17-19-49. – Political literature and influence.
§ 17-19-49. Political literature and influence. No poster, paper, circular, or other document designed or tending to aid, injure, or defeat any candidate for public office or any political party on any question submitted to the voters shall be distributed or displayed within the voting place or within fifty (50) feet of the entrance or […]
Section 17-19-50. – Candidates listing on ballot.
§ 17-19-50. Candidates listing on ballot. No candidate for any public office shall be permitted to have his or her name appear in more than one place on the ballot for the same office. History of Section.P.L. 1973, ch. 267, § 1.
Section 17-19-51. – Priority for elderly voters.
§ 17-19-51. Priority for elderly voters. At each polling place, one voting booth shall be designated for priority use by electors over sixty-five (65) years of age. These electors, once they have complied with the requirements of § 17-19-24, shall, upon request, be permitted to vote immediately in the designated voting booth. Other voters below […]
Section 17-19-52. – Priority for disabled voters.
§ 17-19-52. Priority for disabled voters. Whenever a voter appears at a polling place and that voter has: (1) an obvious medical disability which, in the opinion of the warden, would cause the voter to experience severe discomfort by standing in line, or (2) a certificate from a licensed physician or Christian Science practitioner attesting […]
Section 17-19-53. – Voter accompanied by children within voting booth.
§ 17-19-53. Voter accompanied by children within voting booth. Nothing contained in the general laws of Rhode Island shall prevent a voter from being accompanied by a child or children who are under the age of eighteen (18) years while the voter is within the voting booth area, provided that the child or children are […]