TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 23

ELECTIONS

18-2306.  Illegal voting — interference with election — tampering with voting machines or vote tally systems. Every person not entitled to vote, who fraudulently votes, and every person who votes more than once at any one election, or knowingly hands in two (2) or more tickets folded together, or changes any ballot after the same has been deposited in the ballot box, or 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 adds to or mixes with, or attempts 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; or carries away or destroys, or attempts to carry away or destroy, any poll list, or ballots, or ballot box, for the purpose of breaking up or invalidating such election, or willfully detains, mutilates, or destroys any election returns, or 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, or who violates the provisions of section 34-2404(1) or (2), Idaho Code, by tampering with a voting machine or vote tally system, is guilty of a felony.

History:

[18-2306, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 889; am. 2024, ch. 260, sec. 1, p. 901.]