Delaware § 5131 False count or certification by election officer

Delaware Statutes

§ 5131 — False count or certification by election officer

Delaware § 5131

JurisdictionDelaware

Title15

PartGeneral Elections

Ch. 51CRIMINAL OFFENSES

Subch.Particular Offenses

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Del. Code tit. 15, § 5131 (2026).

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Whoever, being an election officer, wilfully:

(1)Makes any false count of votes cast at any election, or makes, signs, publishes or delivers any false return of such election or any false certificate or statement of the result of such election, knowing the same to be false; or

(2)Defaces, destroys or conceals any statement or certificate entrusted to that election officer’s care or custody shall be deemed to have knowingly and wilfully violated that election officer’s own official duty.

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Whoever, being an election officer, wilfully:

(1) Makes any false count of votes cast at any election, or makes, signs, publishes or delivers any false return of such election or any false certificate or statement of the result of such election, knowing the same to be false; or

(2) Defaces, destroys or conceals any statement or certificate entrusted to that election officer’s care or custody

shall be deemed to have knowingly and wilfully violated that election officer’s own official duty.