P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 4239

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§ 4239. Alteration of election-related documents

Every person who, without being duly authorized by law, or who, having such authorization to intervene with election material, violates the forms and ballots used or to be used in an election for the purpose of extracting, altering, substituting, defacing, destroying, or mislaying such documents to prevent them from being counted during canvass, or who fraudulently makes any erasure or alteration on any ballot, voter identification card, endorsement petition for primary, political party registration application, tally sheets, incident log, voter list, or voter registry shall be guilty of a third-degree felony and, upon conviction, be sanctioned by imprisonment pursuant to the provisions of §§ 4644 and 4694 of Title 33.

History —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 12.009.