Del. Code tit. 15 § 5136

Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 269
Section 5136 - Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty

Whoever:

(1) Fraudulently changes or alters the ballot of any elector, or substitutes 1 ballot for another, or fraudulently furnishes any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names; or
(2) Intentionally practices any fraud upon any elector to induce the elector to deposit a ballot as that elector's own vote and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom such elector intended to vote; or
(3) Otherwise defrauds the elector of the elector's vote,

shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

15 Del. C. § 5136

19 Del. Laws, c. 39, § 44; Code 1915, § 1803; Code 1935, § 1892; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 5138; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;