Del. Code tit. 15 § 5131

Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 269

Section 5131 - False count or certification by election officer

Whoever, being an election officer, wilfully:

(1) Makes any false count of votes cast at any election, or makes, signs, publishes or delivers any false return of such election or any false certificate or statement of the result of such election, knowing the same to be false; or

(2) Defaces, destroys or conceals any statement or certificate entrusted to that election officer's care or custody

shall be deemed to have knowingly and wilfully violated that election officer's own official duty.

15 Del. C. § 5131

19 Del. Laws, c. 39, § 37; Code 1915, § 1797; Code 1935, § 1886; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 5133; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;