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KRS 119.165: Penalties for falsely personating a voter or voting by nonresident or

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  1. KRS Chapter 119

unqualified person or convicted felon.

(1) Any person who falsely personates a registered voter, and receives and casts a

ballot by means of such personation, shall be guilty of a Class D felony. An attempt

at such personation shall constitute a Class A misdemeanor.

(2) Any person who, by means other than falsely personating a registered voter, votes

at an election in this state when he or she is a resident of another state or country, or

votes more than once at an election, or votes by use of the naturalization papers of

another person, shall be guilty of a Class D felony. Any person who knowingly

votes or attempts to vote in a precinct other than the one in which he or she resides

shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, unless by voting in a precinct in which he

or she does not live he is enabled to vote in a race or on a matter in which he or she

could not vote in his or her proper precinct in which case he or she shall be guilty of

a Class D felony. Any person who lends or hires his, hers, or another's

naturalization papers to be used for the purpose of voting shall be subject to the

same penalty.

(3) Any person who has been convicted of a felony offense and has not previously been

restored to their voting rights who then knowingly votes or attempts to vote shall be

guilty of a Class D felony.

(4) Any resident of this state who, by means other than falsely personating a registered

voter, votes before he or she has beco me a citizen, shall be guilty of a Class B

misdemeanor.

(5) Any person who, by means other than falsely personating a registered voter, votes

in a primary election knowing that he or she is not qualified as provided in KRS

116.055, shall be guilty of a violation.

(6) Any person who applies for or receives a ballot at any voting place other than the

one at which he or she is entitled to vote, under circumstances not constituting a

violation of any of the provisions of subsections (1) to (3) of this section, shall be

guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

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