18 U.S.C. § 594 — Intimidation of voters
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 109 words · no verdicts yet
A person may not intimidate, threaten, or coerce another person to interfere with that person’s voting choice or to affect whether the person votes for a listed Federal candidate. A violation can bring a fine, up to one year in prison, or both.
A person may not intimidate, threaten, coerce, or try to do so to interfere with another person’s right to vote or choice of how to vote, or to make that person vote for or against a President, Vice President, presidential elector, Senator, Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, in an election held wholly or partly to elect that candidate. A violator may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 720; Pub. L. 91–405, title II, § 204(d)(5), Sept. 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 853; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 720
- 1970Amended · Pub. L. 91-405 · 84 Stat. 853
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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