Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 29 — Elections and Political Activities
§ 608. Absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters
Statutory text
Whoever knowingly deprives or attempts to deprive any person of a right under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Whoever knowingly gives false information for the purpose of establishing the eligibility of any person to register or vote under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, or pays or offers to pay, or accepts payment for registering or voting under such Act shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
Pub. L. 99–410 title II § 202(a) · 100 Stat. 924
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 608
(Added Pub. L. 99–410, title II, § 202(a), Aug. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 929.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 99–410, title II, § 202(a), Aug. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 929.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) In General.— Chapter 29 of title 18, United States Code, is Law enforcement and crime. amended by adding at the end the following new sections: “§ 608. Absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters “(a) Whoever knowingly deprives or attempts to deprive any person of a right under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. “(b) Whoever knowingly gives false information for the purpose of establishing the eligibility of any person to register or vote under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, or pays or offers to pay, or accepts payment for registering or voting under such Act shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. “§ 609. Use of military authority to influence vote of member of Armed Forces “Whoever, being a commissioned, noncommissioned, warrant, or petty officer of an Armed Force, uses military authority to influence the vote of a member of the Armed Forces or to require a member of the Armed Forces to march to a polling place, or attempts to do so, shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Nothing in this section shall prohibit free Freedom of speech. discussion of political issues or candidates for public office.”
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 99–410, , 100 Stat. 924, which was formerly classified principally to subchapter I–G (§ 1973ff et seq.) of chapter 20 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering in Title 52, Voting and Elections, and is now classified principally to chapter 203 (§ 20301 et seq.) of Title 52. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 608, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 723; , Pub. L. 92–225, title II, § 203, 86 Stat. 9; , Pub. L. 93–443, title I, § 101(a), (b), 88 Stat. 1263, 1266, set limitations on campaign contributions and expenditures, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–283, title II, § 201(a), , 90 Stat. 496. See section 30116 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section applicable with respect to elections taking place after , see section 204 of Pub. L. 99–410, set out as a note under section 20301 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 99–410, title II, § 202(a), , 100 Stat. 929.)