P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 4252
Any person who:
(a) Through violence, intimidation, abuse of authority, deceit, or any illegal action, obstructs, hinders, pretends, or influences to change or prevent the vote of a qualified voter, or who offers or receives a bribe or financial offer to abstain from, obstruct, prevent, influence, or change that vote; or
(b) without being entitled to vote, attempts to do so or who, although having the right to vote, attempts to do so more than once; or
(c) during the day set for an election process, disturbs such process in or outside of a polling place and up to a radius of one hundred (100) meters therefrom, by violence or noise, disrespectful language or behavior, or who, without being a law enforcement officer, carries a firearm or any object for the purpose of inflicting bodily injury; or
(d) illegally enters, attempts to enter, or allows another person to illegally enter any polling place, except in the manner provided by this subtitle or by regulation of the Commission; or
(e) hinders or attempts to hinder the election officials in the performance of their duties under this subtitle; or illegally removes, or consents to the removal of any election material from the place where such material should legally be maintained, displayed, or kept; or attempts to, or allows the use of election forms or false or unofficial ballots, during the election or process; or
(f) knowingly attempts to or violates the secrecy of a vote; or defaces or marks a ballot in an illegal manner for the purpose of identifying, invalidating, or substituting it; or discloses the contents of a ballot already marked by him/her or by another voter, to any person before depositing it in the ballot box; or destroys any equipment used in an election;
(g) coerces or requires anyone through threat, intimidation, force, violence, subterfuge, or deceit to use any image recording device with the intention of infringing a voter’s right to a secret vote shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for a minimum term of one (1) month and a maximum term of six (6) months, or a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of five hundred dollars ($500), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
History —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 12.022.