Chapter 32 — ELECTIONS
544 sections in this chapter.
Repealed. Laws 1997, LB 764, § 113.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1510 Interference with voter registration; penalty.
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Any person who causes any breach of the peace or uses any disorderly violence or threat of violence which impedes or hinders any registration of voters or revision of voter registration lists or interferes with the lawful proceedings of any deputy registrar shall be guilty of a C…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1511 Interference with deputy registrar; penalty.
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Any person who (1) knowingly or willfully obstructs, hinders, assaults, or, by bribery, solicitation, or otherwise, interferes with any deputy registrar in carrying out his or her powers or duties, (2) hinders or prevents the attendance of any deputy registrar at any registration…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1512 Voter registration; irregularities or defects; not a defense; when.
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Irregularities or defects in the mode of noticing, convening, holding, or conducting any registration or revision of registration authorized by sections 32-301 to 32-330 shall not constitute a defense to a prosecution for a violation of any of the provisions of sections 32-1503 t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1513 Candidate filing form; nominating petitions; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who (1) offers to accept and receive or accepts and receives any money or valuable thing in consideration for his or her filing or agreeing to file or not filing or agreeing not to file a candidate filing form for himself or herself as a candidate for nomination in any…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1514 Candidate filing form; forgery; penalty.
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Any person who forges any candidate filing form shall be guilty of a Class III felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1515 Candidate filing form; wrongful failure to file; penalty.
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Any person who is in possession of any candidate filing form entitled to be filed under the Election Act and who wrongfully suppresses or neglects or willfully fails to file such candidate filing form or fails to cause such candidate filing form to be filed at the proper time in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1516 Candidate filing form; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who falsely makes or falsely swears to any candidate filing form or any part thereof, fraudulently defaces or destroys any candidate filing form or any part thereof, files or receives for filing any candidate filing form knowing that the form or any part thereof is fal…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1517 Election officials; employers; prohibited acts; penalties.
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(1) Any person appointed to be a precinct or district inspector or a judge or clerk of election who refuses, neglects, or fails to serve without excuse shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor. (2) Any employer of a person appointed to be a precinct or district inspector or a ju…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1518 Election officials; other violations of Election Act; penalty; political subdivision; member of governing body; failure or refusal to perform duty; penalty.
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(1) Any judge or clerk of election, any precinct or district inspector, or any other person upon whom any duty is imposed by the Election Act relating to elections who willfully does or performs anything prohibited by the act for which no other penalty is provided or neglects or …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1519 Judge or clerk of election; prohibited acts; penalty.
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(1) Any judge of election who (a) knowingly receives or sanctions the reception of an improper or illegal vote from any person who is not a registered voter, (b) receives or sanctions the reception of a ballot from any person who refuses to answer any question which is put to him…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1520 Ballot with unlawful printing; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person causing ballots to be printed with a designated heading containing a name or names not found on the official ballot having such heading or any person knowingly peddling or distributing any such ballot with the intent to have such ballot voted at any election shall be g…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1521 Persons authorized to print and distribute ballots; violation; penalty.
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Any person who prints or causes to be printed or distributed any ballot marked Official Ballot other than an election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1522 Ballots and other election documents; prohibited acts; penalties.
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(1) A judge or clerk of election, a printer, or any other person entrusted with the custody or delivery of ballots, blanks, list of voters book and official summary of votes cast, card of instructions, or other required papers who knowingly and willfully (a) unlawfully opens or p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1522.01 Initials or signatures on ballots; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who forges or falsely places any initials or signatures on any ballot under section 32-916 or 32-947 shall be guilty of a Class III felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1523 Obstruction of polling place or building; penalty.
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Any person who obstructs the doors or entries or prevents free ingress to and egress from a polling place or building shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1524 Electioneering; dissemination of information or materials; circulation of petitions; prohibited acts; penalty; observed violation; warning.
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(1) No judge or clerk of election or precinct or district inspector shall do any electioneering or disseminate information or materials advertising or advocating for or against any ballot measure while acting as an election official. (2) No person shall do any electioneering, dis…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1525 Polling and interviews; poll watchers; counting watchers or observers; prohibited acts; restrictions; violation; penalty.
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(1) No person shall conduct an exit poll, a public opinion poll, or any other interview with voters on election day seeking to determine voter preference within twenty feet of the entrance of any polling place or, if inside the polling place or building, within one hundred feet o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1526 Fraudulent placement of ballot in ballot box; penalty.
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Any judge or clerk of election who puts a ballot into the ballot box, except his or her own ballot or such as may be received in the regular discharge of his or her duties as a judge or clerk, or who knowingly permits any ballot which was fraudulently placed or deposited in such …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1527 Voting of ballots; prohibited acts; penalty.
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(1) No voter shall receive an official ballot from any person other than a judge of election, and no person other than a judge of election shall deliver an official ballot to a voter. (2) No voter shall vote or offer to vote any ballot except an official ballot received from a ju…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1528 Nonresident of school district, village, or precinct; illegal voting; penalty.
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Any person who votes a ballot in any school district, village, or precinct of a city in this state in which he or she does not actually reside or into which he or she has come for merely temporary purposes shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1529 Nonresident of state; illegal voting; penalty.
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Any resident of another state who votes in this state shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1530 Ineligible voter; illegal voting; penalty.
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Any person who votes (1) who is not a resident of this state or registered in the county or who at the time of election is not of the constitutionally prescribed age of a registered voter, (2) who is not a citizen of the United States, or (3) after being disqualified by law by re…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1531 Nonresident of county; illegal voting; penalty.
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Except as provided in sections 32-933 to 32-937, any person who is a resident of this state and who goes or comes into any county of which he or she is not an actual resident and votes in such county shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1532 Aiding and abetting ineligible voter; penalty.
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Any person who procures, aids, assists, counsels, or advises another to give his or her vote, knowing that such other person is not a resident of this state or a registered voter of the county as required by law at the time of election, is not of the constitutionally prescribed a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1533 Aiding and abetting nonresident of county; penalty.
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Any person who procures, aids, assists, counsels, or advises another to go or come into any county for the purpose of giving his or her vote in such county knowing that the other person is not duly qualified to vote in such county shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1534 Voting more than once; penalty.
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Any person who votes more than once at the same election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1535 Unauthorized removal of ballots; penalty.
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Any person who removes any ballot from the polling room before the closing of the polls except as otherwise authorized under the Election Act shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1536 Bribery; prohibited acts; penalty.
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(1) Any person who accepts or receives any valuable thing as a consideration for his or her vote for any person to be voted for at any election shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor. (2) Any person who, by bribery, attempts to influence any voter of this state in voting, uses…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1537 Employer; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who (1) coerces or attempts to coerce any of his or her employees in their voting or in any other political action at any caucus, convention, or election held or to be held in this state or (2) attempts to influence the political action of his or her employees by threa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1538 Fraudulent assistance of illiterate voter; penalty.
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Any person who, with intent to induce a voter who cannot read to vote contrary to his or her inclination, furnishes the voter with a ballot and informs him or her that the ballot contains a name or names different from the name or names which are written or printed on the ballot …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1539 Ballot for early voting; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who (1) impersonates or makes a false representation in order to obtain a ballot for early voting, (2) knowingly connives to help a person to vote such a ballot illegally, (3) destroys, steals, marks, or mutilates any such ballot after the same has been voted or aids o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1540 Fraudulent placement of ballot into ballot box; penalty.
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Any person who fraudulently puts a ballot into the ballot box shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1541 List of voters book; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who willfully, knowingly, and with fraudulent intent inscribes, writes, or causes to be inscribed or written in or upon any list of voters book the name of any person not entitled to vote at such election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1542 Election records and returns; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who has in his or her possession any falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited list of voters book, official summary of votes cast, or election returns of any election and who knows such book, summary, or election returns to be falsely made, altered, forged, or c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1543 Unlawful destruction or possession of ballot or ballot box; penalty.
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Any person who unlawfully attempts to destroy a ballot or who unlawfully, by force, violence, fraud, or other improper means, obtains or attempts to obtain possession of a ballot box or a ballot which was deposited in a ballot box while the voting at the election is going on or b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1544 Unlawful destruction of election material; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who, from the time any ballots are cast or voted until the time has expired for using the same as evidence in any contest of an election, unlawfully destroys or attempts to destroy or incites or requests another to destroy any ballot box, list of registered voters, sig…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1545 Election results or returns; prohibited acts; penalty.
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(1) Any person disclosing any election results or election returns before the closing of the polls without the express authorization of the election commissioner or county clerk shall be guilty of a Class IV felony. (2) Any person other than the election commissioner or county cl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1546 Petition signers and circulators; prohibited acts; penalties.
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(1) Any person who is not, at the time of signing a petition, a registered voter and qualified to sign the petition except as provided in subdivision (1) of section 32-629 or who signs any name other than his or her own to any petition shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor. (2…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1547 Member of the Legislature or constitutional officer; multiple filing prohibited; penalty.
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Any person serving as a member of the Legislature or in an elective office described in Article IV, section 1, of the Constitution of Nebraska who files for more than one elective office to be filled in the same election except for the position of delegate to a county, state, or …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1548 County attorney; prosecute violations; suspension of sentence or judgment; when.
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Except as provided in subdivision (2) of section 84-205, the county attorney of any county in this state shall prosecute all complaints which may be made of violations of the Election Act to final judgment. The court before which any conviction for such violation shall be had sha…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1549 Citation in lieu of arrest; Supreme Court; powers; prosecution; procedure; failure to appear; penalty.
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(1) A peace officer may issue a citation in lieu of arrest for any offense which is a misdemeanor under the Election Act. The citation may be served in the same manner as an arrest warrant, in the same manner as a summons in a civil action, or by certified mail. (2) To achieve un…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1550 Arrest; grounds.
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(1) Any peace officer having grounds for issuing a citation under the Election Act may take the accused into custody when the accused fails to identify himself or herself satisfactorily or refuses to sign the citation or when the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that (a)…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1551 Special election by mail; prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who (1) impersonates or makes a false representation in order to obtain a ballot for an election to be held by mail as provided in sections 32-952 to 32-959, (2) knowingly connives to help a person to vote such a ballot illegally, (3) destroys, steals, marks, or mutila…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1552 Initiative or referendum petition; sponsor's affidavit; falsely swearing; penalty.
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Any person who knowingly and falsely swears to a sponsor's affidavit on a petition filed under section 32-1407 shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.
Repealed. Laws 2013, LB 79, § 41.
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Repealed. Laws 2013, LB 79, § 41.
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Repealed. Laws 2013, LB 79, § 41.
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Repealed. Laws 2013, LB 79, § 41.
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Repealed. Laws 2013, LB 79, § 41.
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[Repealed or reserved.]