Delaware § 5136 Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty

Delaware Statutes

§ 5136 — Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty

Delaware § 5136

JurisdictionDelaware

Title15

PartGeneral Elections

Ch. 51CRIMINAL OFFENSES

Subch.Particular Offenses

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Del. Code tit. 15, § 5136 (2026).

Text

Whoever:

(1)Fraudulently changes or alters the ballot of any elector, or substitutes 1 ballot for another, or fraudulently furnishes any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names; or

(2)Intentionally practices any fraud upon any elector to induce the elector to deposit a ballot as that elector’s own vote and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom such elector intended to vote; or

(3)Otherwise defrauds the elector of the elector’s vote, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

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Whoever:

(1) Fraudulently changes or alters the ballot of any elector, or substitutes 1 ballot for another, or fraudulently furnishes any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names; or

(2) Intentionally practices any fraud upon any elector to induce the elector to deposit a ballot as that elector’s own vote and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom such elector intended to vote; or

(3) Otherwise defrauds the elector of the elector’s vote,

shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.