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Rhode Island Statutes § 17-19-42 Tampering with voting equipment

⤴ Up to Chapter 17-19: Conduct of Election and Voting Equipment, and Supplies

Statute Text

Any person, not being an election or primary officer or person upon whom a duty is imposed by this chapter, who, while any voting equipment is being made ready for an election or primary, or is in use during an election or primary, tampers with, disarranges, defaces, injures, or impairs the voting equipment in any manner, or mutilates, injures, destroys, or disarranges any computer ballot, or any other appliance used in connection with the voting equipment, shall be guilty of a felony.

History

P.L. 1935, ch. 2195, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 318, § 18; P.L. 1940, ch. 818, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1947, ch. 1886, §§ 36, 39; G.L. 1956, § 17-19-39 ; G.L. 1956, § 17-19-42; P.L. 1958, ch. 18, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 201, §9; P.L. 1996 , ch. 277 , § 12 ; P.L. 1996 , ch. 298 , § 12 .

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