Mississippi Statutes § 23-17-59 Unlawful to interfere with or influence vote of elector
Statute Text
It is unlawful for a person to interfere with or influence the vote of an elector on a measure by means of violence, threats, intimidation, enforcing the payment of a debt, bringing a suit or criminal prosecution, any threat or action affecting a person's conditions of employment or other corrupt means.
Source
Laws, 1993, ch. 514, § 30, eff. 8/3/1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objections under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965).
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