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N.Y. Election Law § 17-132: Illegal voting

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  1. Election Law
  2. Article 17. Protecting the Elective Franchise
  3. Title 1. Violations of the Elective Franchise

§ 17-132. Illegal voting. Any person who:

1. Knowingly votes or offers or attempts to vote at any election, when

not qualified; or,

2. Procures, aids, assists, counsels or advises any person to go or

come into any election district, for the purpose of voting at any

election, knowing that such person is not qualified; or,

3. Votes or offers or attempts to vote at an election, more than once;

or votes or offers or attempts to vote at an election under any other

name than his own; or votes or offers or attempts to vote at an

election, in an election district or from a place where he does not

reside; or,

4. Procures, aids, assists, commands or advises another to vote or

offer or attempt to vote at an election, knowing that such person is not

qualified to vote thereat; or,

5. Prompts a person, applying to vote, to falsely answer questions put

to him by the inspectors concerning his identity or qualifications for

voting; or,

6. Being an applicant for an absentee voter's ballot, makes a material

false statement in his application, or a person who makes a material

false statement in a medical certificate or an affidavit filed in

connection with an application for an absentee voter's ballot; or,

7. Not being a qualified absentee voter, and having knowledge or being

chargeable with knowledge of that fact, votes or attempts to vote as an

absentee voter; or,

8. Fraudulently signs the name of another upon an early mail or

absentee voter's envelope or aids in doing or attempting to do a

fraudulent act in connection with an early mail or absentee vote cast or

attempted to be cast; or,

9. Falsely pretends or represents to the inspectors of election or any

of them that he is incapacitated to mark his ballot, for the purpose of

obtaining assistance in voting under the provisions of this chapter, is

guilty of a felony.

Any offer or attempt under this section shall be deemed to be the

doing of any act made necessary by this chapter preliminary to the

delivery of a ballot to an elector or the deposit of the ballot in the

ballot box or his admission to the booth or voting machine enclosure.

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