§ 17-23-17 - Violations with respect to elections.
SECTION 17-23-17
§ 17-23-17 Violations with respect toelections. – (a) Any person is guilty of a felony who:
(1) Makes a declaration of candidacy or obtains, circulates,or causes to be circulated his or her nomination papers for an office, knowingor with good reason to know that he or she is not qualified as provided in thistitle to be his or her party's candidate for the office;
(2) Knowingly or without reasonable and proper investigationmakes any substantial misstatement in any declaration of candidacy, nominationpaper, or affidavit provided for in this title;
(3) Signs a nomination paper when he or she knows that he orshe is not qualified to sign;
(4) Votes or attempts to vote at any election when he or sheknows or should know that he or she is not qualified to vote;
(5) Votes or attempts to vote more than once at any election,or votes or attempts to vote in more than one political party's primary on thesame day;
(6) Votes or attempts to vote at any election under the nameof any other person;
(7) Willfully hinders the orderly conduct of any election;
(8) Gives a false answer to any election official relative tohis or her right to vote at the election;
(9) Aids or abets a person not entitled to vote at anyelection in voting or attempting to vote under a name other than the voter'sname or in voting twice upon the voter's name;
(10) Willfully alters or makes any change, erasure, oradditional check upon the voting list used or to be used at any election; or
(11) Willfully violates any provisions of chapters 12 –15 of this title for which violation a specific penalty is not provided.
(b) Any person who unlawfully and knowingly signs the name ofany other person on any nomination papers shall be guilty of a felony.
(c) Any public officer or officer of a political party whowillfully violates any of the provisions of chapters 12 – 15 of thistitle, or refuses or willfully neglects and omits to perform, in the manner andwithin the time prescribed, any duty imposed upon the officer by thesechapters, or suffers or permits any alteration, erasure, or additional check tobe made upon a voting list in the officer's custody or control, shall be guiltyof a felony.