Title 16 — Elections and Electors

The provisions of this title defining crimes involving elections and crimes against the elective franchise, and prescribing penalties therefor, apply to any general, primary or special election or to any election called by a board of supervisors for any purpose for which the boar…

A person who counterfeits a ballot, or who circulates or gives to another a counterfeit ballot, knowing at the time that the ballot has not been issued pursuant to the election laws of the state, is guilty of a class 5 felony.

A person who knowingly forges or falsely makes the official endorsement of a ballot, knowingly destroys or defaces a ballot, or knowingly delays the delivery of a ballot, is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

A. A person who at any election knowingly interferes in any manner with an officer of such election in the discharge of the officer's duty, or who induces an officer of an election or officer whose duty it is to ascertain, announce or declare the result of such election, to viola…

A. Any person who knowingly marks a voted or unvoted ballot or ballot envelope with the intent to fix an election for that person's own benefit or for that of another person is guilty of a class 5 felony. B. It is unlawful to offer or provide any consideration to acquire a voted …

A. It is unlawful for a person knowingly by force, threats, menaces, bribery or any corrupt means, either directly or indirectly: 1. To attempt to influence an elector in casting his vote or to deter him from casting his vote. 2. To attempt to awe, restrain, hinder or disturb an …

An officer of an election, unless lawfully assisting a voter, is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor, who knowingly: 1. Previous to the closing of the polls, attempts to find out for whom the elector has voted. 2. Opens or permits the folded ballot of an elector which has been delive…

An officer of an election who, while acting as such, knowingly induces an elector, either by menace, reward or promise thereof, to vote differently than the elector intended or desired to vote, is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

A public officer upon whom a duty is imposed by this title, who knowingly fails or refuses to perform that duty in the manner prescribed by law, is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

A person charged with performance of any duty under any law relating to elections who knowingly refuses to perform such duty, or who, in his official capacity, knowingly acts in violation of any provision of such law, is guilty of a class 6 felony unless a different punishment fo…

A. A person who knowingly forges or counterfeits returns of an election purporting to have been held at a precinct or place where no election was in fact held, or who knowingly substitutes, forges or counterfeits returns of election instead of the true returns for a precinct or p…

A. It is unlawful for an employer knowingly: 1. In paying employees the salary or wages due them, to enclose their pay in envelopes upon which there is written or printed any political mottoes, devices or arguments, containing threats, express or implied, intended or calculated t…

A. It is unlawful for a person knowingly: 1. Directly or indirectly, to make use of force, violence or restraint, or to inflict or threaten infliction, by himself or through any other person, of any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any manner to practice intimidation upon or a…

A. It is unlawful for a person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person knowingly: 1. To treat, give, pay, loan, contribute, offer or promise money or other valuable consideration, or to give, offer or promise an office, place or employment, or to promise o…

A person who, before or during an election provided by law, knowingly makes, offers or accepts a bet or wager, or takes a share or interest in, or in any manner becomes a party to the bet or wager, or provides or agrees to provide money to be used by another in making the bet or …

A person is guilty of a class 5 felony who: 1. Not being entitled to vote, knowingly votes. 2. Knowingly votes more than once at any election. 3. Knowingly votes in two or more jurisdictions in this state for which residency is required for lawful voting and the person is not a r…

A voter who knowingly commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor: 1. Makes a false statement as to the voter's inability to mark a ballot. 2. Interferes with a voter within the seventy-five foot limit of the polling place as posted by the election marsha…

A person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor: 1. Knowingly electioneers on election day within a polling place or in a public manner within seventy-five feet of the main outside entrance of a polling place or on-site early voting location esta…

A. It is a class 2 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly remove, alter, deface or cover any political sign of any candidate for public office or in support of or opposition to any ballot measure, question or issue or knowingly remove, alter or deface any political mailers, hand…

A person knowingly signing any name other than his own to a nomination petition or a petition for formation, alteration or dissolution of a special district, except in a circumstance where he signs for a person, in the presence of and at the specific request of such person who is…

In any election for state office, members of the legislature, justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals or statewide initiative or referendum the attorney general may enforce the provisions of this title through civil and criminal actions. In any election for …

B. It is unlawful for any person to make a contribution in the name of another person, knowingly permit a person's name to be used to effect a contribution in the name of another person or knowingly accept a contribution made by a person in the name of another person. A person wh…

1. That a digital impersonation of the person was published to one or more other persons without the person's consent. 2. That at the time of publication either of the following applies: (a) The publisher did not reasonably convey to the persons to whom the publication was made t…

B. This section does not apply to: 1. Media that constitutes satire or parody. 2. An interactive computer service as defined in 47 United States Code section 230. C. A person who fails to make the disclosure required under this section is liable for the civil penalty prescribed b…