Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement
§ 21144. Other criminal penalties
Statutory text
Conspiracy to deprive voters of a fair election
Any individual who knowingly and willfully gives false information in registering or voting in violation of section 10307(c) of this title, or conspires with another to violate such section, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in accordance with such section.
False information in registering and voting
Any individual who knowingly commits fraud or knowingly makes a false statement with respect to the naturalization, citizenry, or alien registry of such individual in violation of section 1015 of title 18 shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in accordance with such section.
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.
Help America Vote Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–252 title IX § 905 · 116 Stat. 1666
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 21144
(Pub. L. 107–252, title IX, § 905, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1729.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–252, title IX, § 905, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1729.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 905. OTHER CRIMINAL PENALTIES. (a) Conspiracy To Deprive Voters of a Fair Election.— Any individual who knowingly and willfully gives false information in registering or voting in violation of section 11(c) of the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973i(c)), or conspires with another to violate such section, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in accordance with such section. (b) False Information in Registering and Voting.— Any individual who knowingly commits fraud or knowingly makes a false statement with respect to the naturalization, citizenry, or alien registry of such individual in violation of section 1015 of title 18, United States Code, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in accordance with such section.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 15544 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.