Sec. 9-367. Tampering with ballot or voting tabulator.

Any person, not being an election official, who, with intent to cause or permit any ballot, voting tabulator or other appliance used in connection with such tabulator to fail to correctly register any vote cast upon such ballot, tabulator or other appliance, during any election or before any election, tampers with a voting tabulator, disarranges, defaces, injures or impairs the same in any manner, or mutilates, injures or destroys any ballot or any other appliance used in connection with such tabulator, shall be guilty of a class C felony.

(1949 Rev., S. 1218; 1953, S. 844d; P.A. 11-20, S. 22; P.A. 12-193, S. 6.)

History: P.A. 11-20 added language re intent and made section applicable to tampering with a ballot, voting tabulator or other appliance, rather than a voting machine or ballot label, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 12-193 changed penalty from imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class C felony, effective July 1, 2012.

Notation

See Sec. 9-352 re penalty for tampering with voting tabulator by election official.