1. A person who commits any of the following acts shall be guilty of a class "D" felony:
a. Willfully registers to vote, knowing oneself not to be eligible.
b. Willfully or knowingly provides false information for the purpose of registering to vote.
c. Willfully or knowingly registers a fictitious person to vote, or attempts to do so.
d. Forges another person's name to a voter registration form or other voter registration document.
2. A person who commits any of the following acts shall be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor:
a. Willfully or knowingly entices another to fraudulently register to vote.
b. Conspires with another for the purpose of introducing information known to be false into voter registration records.
c. Willfully or knowingly destroys registration records, or attempts to do so, without proper authorization. For the purpose of this paragraph, an electronic record which has not been replaced with a more recent version of the same record is a registration record.
d. Files a challenge under section 48A.14 which the challenger knows contains false information pertaining to the reasons the registration is being challenged.
e. Willfully or knowingly intimidates or threatens, or attempts to intimidate or threaten, any person for registering to vote or attempting to register to vote, or intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person to register to vote or to attempt to register to vote.
94 Acts, ch 1169, §42
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