§20511 — Title 52 Voting and Elections | U.S. Code

Summary

Makes it a crime for anyone, including election officials, to on purpose scare, threaten, force, or try to scare, threaten, or force someone to stop them from registering to vote, voting, trying to register or vote, helping someone else register or vote, or using any voting right under this law. Also makes it a crime to on purpose try to rob people of a fair election by using fake voter registration forms or by getting, casting, or counting ballots that the person knows are false under the State’s law.

Title 52, §20511

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A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office—

(1)knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for—

(A)registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;

(B)urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or

(C)exercising any right under this chapter; or

(2)knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by—

(A)the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held; or

(B)the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held,

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1973gg–10 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§20511 Criminal penalties

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Title 52, §20511

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