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[CITE: 42USC1972]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                     CHAPTER 20--ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 1972. Interference with freedom of elections

    No officer of the Army, Navy, or Air Force of the United States 
shall prescribe or fix, or attempt to prescribe or fix, by proclamation, 
order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State, or in 
any manner interfere with the freedom of any election in any State, or 
with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any State.

(R.S. Sec. 2003.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2003 derived from act Feb. 25, 1865, ch. 52, Sec. 1, 13 
Stat. 437.
    Air Force inserted to conform to section 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 
1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 502, which established a separate 
Department of the Air Force, and Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 
40 [App. A(10)], July 22, 1949, which transferred certain functions to 
the Air Force. Section 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by 
section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of 
act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, Armed Forces'', which in sections 
8010 to 8013 continued Department of the Air Force under administrative 
supervision of Secretary of the Air Force.
    Section was formerly classified to section 32 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.
