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Delaware Statutes § 5136 Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty

Up to Subchapter II: Particular Offenses

Statute Text

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.

History

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

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