N.Y. Election Law § 17-102: Misdemeanors at, or in connection with, primary elections, caucuses, enrollment in political parties, committees, and conventions

§ 17-102. Misdemeanors at, or in connection with, primary elections,

caucuses, enrollment in political parties, committees, and conventions.

Any person who:

1. At a primary election or caucus of a party, wilfully votes, or

attempts to vote, without being entitled to do so, or votes, or attempts

to vote under any other name than his own or on the same day more than

once under his own name; or,

2. Votes, or offers to vote, at a primary election or caucus of a

party, having voted at the primary election or caucus of any other

political party on the same day, or being at the time enrolled in a

party other than the party at whose primary or caucus he votes or offers

to vote; or, who causes his name to be placed upon the rolls of a party

organization of one party while his name is by his consent or

procurement upon the rolls of a party organization of another party; or,

3. At a primary election or caucus, for the purpose of affecting the

result thereof, votes or attempts to vote two or more ballots, or adds,

or attempts to add, any ballot to those lawfully cast, by fraudulently

introducing the same into the ballot box before or after the ballots

therein have been counted, or who adds to or mixes with, or attempts to

add to or mix with, the ballots lawfully cast, another ballot or other

ballots before the votes have been counted or canvassed, or while the

votes are being counted or canvassed; or at any time abstracts any

ballots lawfully cast, with intent to change the result of such election

or to change the count thereat in favor of or against any person voted

for at such election, or to prevent the ballots being recounted or used

as evidence; or carries away, destroys, loses, conceals, detains,

secretes, mutilates, or attempts to carry away, destroy, conceal,

detain, secrete, or mutilate, any tally lists, ballots, ballot boxes,

enrollment books, certificates of return, or any official documents

provided for by the election law or otherwise by law, for the purpose of

affecting or invalidating the result of such election, or of destroying

evidence; or in any manner interferes with the officers holding any

primary election or conducting the canvass of the votes cast thereat, or

with voters lawfully exercising, or seeking to exercise, their right of

voting at such primary election; or,

4. For the purpose of securing enrollment as a member of a political

party, or for the purpose of being allowed to vote at a primary election

or caucus as a member of a political party makes, deposits or files with

a board of inspectors, or with any public officer or board, a false

declaration of party affiliation or wilfully makes a false declaration

of residence, either by an enrollment blank or otherwise, or falsely

answers any pertinent question asked him by the board of election

inspectors, or by a member thereof; or,

5. Fraudulently or wrongfully does any act tending to affect the

result of any primary election, caucus or convention; or,

6. Induces or attempts to induce any poll clerk, election inspector,

election coordinator, or officer, clerk or employee of the board of

elections discharging any duty or performing any act required or made

necessary by the election law at a primary election or in connection

with the registration or enrollment of voters, to do any act in

violation of his duty or in violation of the election law; or,

7. Directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person,

pays, or offers to pay, money or other valuable thing, or promises a

place or position, or offers any other consideration or makes any other

promise, to any person, to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from

voting, at a primary election or caucus, or convention, for or against

any particular person; or does or offers to do, anything to hinder or

delay any elector from taking part in or voting at a primary election or

caucus; or,

8. By menace or other unlawful or corrupt means, directly or

indirectly, influences or attempts to influence, the vote of any person

entitled to vote at a primary election or caucus, or convention, or

obstructs such person in voting, or prevents him from voting thereat;

or,

9. Directly or indirectly, by himself or through another person,

receives money or other valuable thing, or a promise of a place or

position, before, at, or after any primary election or caucus, or

convention, for voting or refraining from voting for or against any

person, or for voting or refraining from voting at a primary election,

caucus or convention; or,

10. Being an officer, teller, canvasser, or inspector, at a primary

election or caucus, knowingly permits any fraudulent vote to be cast, or

knowingly receives and deposits in the ballot box any ballots offered by

any person not qualified to vote; or permits the removal of ballots from

the polling place before the close of the polls, or refuses to receive

ballots intended for the electors of the district, or refuses to deliver

to any elector ballots intended for the electors of the district which

have been delivered to the board of inspectors, or permits

electioneering within the polling place or within one hundred feet

therefrom, or fails to keep order within the polling place, or permits

any person other than the inspectors, or other persons permitted by this

chapter to render assistance, to accompany an elector into a voting

booth, or enters the voting booth with any elector, except one entitled

to receive such assistance in the preparation of his ballot, or permits

any person, other than a voter who has not voted, or a watcher to come

within the guard rail or removes or permits another to remove any mark

placed upon a ballot for its identification; or,

11. Being an officer, clerk or employee of the board of elections,

election inspector, poll clerk or election coordinator, knowingly puts

opposite the name of an elector in an enrollment book any enrollment

number other than the number opposite such name in the registration poll

records of such district, or knowingly delivers to or receives from any

elector on the day of registration an enrollment blank or envelope on

which is any other enrollment number than the one opposite his name in

such registration poll records or knowingly transcribes from an

enrollment blank to the enrollment books any refusal to enroll or

enrollment not indicated on the enrollment blank of the elector of such

district whose enrollment number appears on such enrollment blank, or

refuses or wilfully neglects to transcribe from any enrollment blank to

the proper enrollment books any refusal to enroll or enrollment

indicated on the enrollment blank of such an elector, enrolls or

attempts to enroll as a member of a political party upon any of the

enrollment books, any person not qualified to enroll as such, or

fraudulently enters thereupon the name of any person who has not

enrolled as a member of any political party, or refuses or wilfully

neglects to enroll upon any of the enrollment books the name of any

qualified person who has demanded to be enrolled as a member of a

political party, or at any time strikes from any of the enrollment books

the name of any person duly enrolled, or at any time adds to any of the

enrollment books the name of any person not qualified to be enrolled as

a member of a political party, or the name of any person who in fact has

not enrolled as such; or makes marks upon, mutilates, carries away,

conceals, alters, or destroys any enrollment blank or enrollment

envelope used or deposited by an elector on a day of registration for

the purpose of enrolling or refusing to enroll himself as a member of a

political party; or mutilates, carries away, conceals, alters or

destroys, any statement or declaration made by a qualified voter for the

purpose of enrolling as a member of the party; or, prior to the close of

the last meeting for registration in any year, mutilates, carries away,

conceals, alters, or destroys any enrollment blanks or enrollment

envelopes not then delivered to electors; or,

12. Being an officer, teller, canvasser, election inspector, clerk or

employee of the board of elections or any officer of a political

committee or a convention, wilfully omits, refuses or neglects to do any

act required by this chapter or otherwise by law, or violates any of the

provisions of the election law, or makes or attempts to make any false

canvass of the ballots cast at a primary election, caucus or convention,

or a false statement of the result of a canvass of the ballots cast

thereat; or,

13. Being an officer, clerk or employee of the board of elections, or

an officer of a political committee or a convention, who is charged

with, or assumes, the duty of compiling the roll of any convention,

wilfully includes in such roll the name of any person not certified to

be elected thereto in accordance with the provisions of law, or who

wilfully omits from such roll the name of any person who is so certified

to be a delegate to such convention, is guilty of a misdemeanor.