TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 23

ELECTIONS

18-2306A.  interference with election. (1) Every person who changes any ballot after the same has been deposited in the ballot box, or who adds, or attempts to add, any ballot to those legally polled at any election, either by fraudulently introducing the same into the ballot box before or after the ballots therein have been counted, or by adding to or mixing with, or attempting to add to or mix with, the ballots lawfully polled, other ballots, while the same are being counted or canvassed, or at any other time, with intent to change the result of such election shall be guilty of a felony.

(2)  Every person who carries away or destroys, or attempts to carry away or destroy, any poll list, ballots, or ballot box, for the purpose of breaking up or invalidating such election, or who willfully detains, mutilates, or destroys any election returns, or who in any manner so interferes with the officers holding such election or conducting such canvass or with the voters lawfully exercising their rights of voting at such election, as to prevent such election or canvass from being fairly held and lawfully conducted shall be guilty of a felony.

History:

[18-2306A, added 2026, ch. 63, sec. 3, p. 263.]