{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-55-32","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 55, § 32","heading":"Corrupt practices by candidate defined","body":"Section 32. A candidate shall be deemed to have committed a corrupt practice who commits any of the following offences:\nMaking or permitting any person or non-elected political committee authorized by him to make a false return in any statement filed under sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty-four by him or on his behalf.\nMaking a false return in any statement filed under sections eighteen and twenty-four by a candidate for nomination or election.\nAny candidate fraudulently and wilfully obstructing and delaying a voter, interfering with, hindering or preventing an election officer from performing his duties, forging an endorsement upon, altering, destroying or defacing a ballot, tampering with or injuring or attempting to injure any voting machine or ballot box to be used or being used in a primary or election, or preventing or attempting to prevent the correct operation of such machine or box.","path":["Part I","Title VIII","Chapter 55"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVIII/Chapter55/Section32","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:20:51Z","sha256":"cf5848fb97959ca00ac6e402a64d7c694ecacc98f0a54571779a519a80444ea7","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-55-31","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-55-33"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}