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Any person who:\n(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\n(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\n(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\n(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\n(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

or\n(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\n(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;\n(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

on 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.\nHistory —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 12.022.