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[CITE: 42USC1973gg-10]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                     CHAPTER 20--ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
 
               SUBCHAPTER I-H--NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION
 
Sec. 1973gg-10. Criminal penalties

    A person, including an election official, who in any election for 
Federal office--
        (1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, 
    or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for--
            (A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to 
        register or vote;
            (B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to 
        vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or
            (C) exercising any right under this subchapter; or

        (2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to 
    deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and 
    impartially conducted election process, by--
            (A) the procurement or submission of voter registration 
        applications that are known by the person to be materially 
        false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in 
        which the election is held; or
            (B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that 
        are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or 
        fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is 
        held,

shall be fined in accordance with title 18 (which fines shall be paid 
into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant 
to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or 
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

(Pub. L. 103-31, Sec. 12, May 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 88.)
