Any person may file with the district attorney an affidavit stating the name of any person who has violated any of the provisions of this article and stating the facts which constitute the alleged offense. Upon the filing of such affidavit, the district attorney shall forthwith investigate, and, if reasonable grounds appear therefor, he shall […]
Irregularities or defects in the mode of calling, giving notice of, convening, holding, or conducting any regular or special election constitutes no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this article. When an offense is committed in relation to any municipal election, an indictment, information, or complaint for such offense is sufficient if it […]
Any person violating any provision of this article is a competent witness against any other such violator and may be compelled to attend and testify upon any trial, hearing, proceeding, or investigation in the same manner as any other person, but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil […]
In all cases where an offense is denominated by this article as being a misdemeanor and no penalty is specified, the offender, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such […]
All fines collected under the provisions of this article shall be paid to the county in which the municipality concerned is located. Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1070, § 1, effective July 1. Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 31-10-1305 as it existed prior to 1975.
Any person, having taken any oath or made any affirmation required by this article, who swears or affirms willfully, corruptly, and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question or suborns any other person to swear or affirm willfully, corruptly, and falsely commits perjury in the second degree or subornation of […]
Any person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any ballot before or after it has been cast, or who forges any name of a person as a signer or witness to a petition or nomination paper, or who forges the name of a registered elector to an absent voter’s ballot commits forgery. Source: L. […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who, being in possession of nomination papers entitled to be filed under this article, wrongfully or willfully destroys, defaces, mutilates, suppresses, neglects, or fails to cause the same to be filed by the proper time in the clerk’s […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who offers or knowingly permits any person to offer for his benefit any bribe or promise of gain to an elector to induce him to sign any nomination petition or other election paper or any person who accepts […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022.] Any election official having charge of official ballots, tally sheets, the registration book or list, and the pollbook who destroys, conceals, or suppresses the same, except as expressly permitted by this article, commits a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who willfully destroys or defaces any ballot or tally sheet, or who willfully delays the delivery of the ballots, tally sheets, registration book or list, or pollbook, or who conceals or removes any ballot, ballot box, or tally […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any election judge who willfully and maliciously refuses or neglects to receive the ballot of any registered elector who has taken or offered to take the oath prescribed in section 31-10-1105 or knowingly and willfully permits any person to vote […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any election official, watcher, or person who assists an individual with a disability in voting and who reveals how the individual with a disability voted commits a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 31-10-1504.
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any municipal official election official or other person upon whom any duty is imposed by this article who violates, neglects, or omits to perform such duty or is guilty of corrupt conduct in the discharge of the same or any […]
It is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person: To receive, agree to, or contract for, before or during any municipal election, any money, gift, loan, or other valuable consideration for himself or any other person for voting or agreeing to vote, or for going or agreeing to […]
No person shall solicit or induce a voter to reveal how he or she voted. No voter shall place any mark upon his or her ballot by means of which it can be identified as the one voted by him or her, and no other mark shall be placed upon the ballot to identify it […]
No voter shall receive an official ballot from any person except one of the judges of election, and no person other than a judge of election shall deliver an official ballot to a voter. No person except a judge of election shall receive from any voter a ballot prepared for voting. Any voter who does […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who votes more than once or, having voted once, offers to vote again or offers to deposit in the ballot box more than one ballot, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who, at any municipal election, fraudulently votes or offers to vote in any precinct in which he or she does not reside shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment […]
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who does any electioneering on election day within any polling place or in any public street or room or in any public manner within one hundred feet of any building in which a polling place is located commits […]
