43.119  Criminal misconduct.

Any party committee member or any primary election officer or public officer upon whom a duty is imposed by this chapter or by chapters herein made applicable, who shall willfully neglect to perform any such duty, or who shall willfully perform it in such a way as to hinder the objects thereof, or shall disclose to anyone, except as may be ordered by any court of justice, the manner in which a ballot may have been voted, shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

Any person who is designated pursuant to section 43.4 to report the results of a precinct caucus as it relates to the selection and reporting of delegates selected as part of the presidential nominating process or who is designated pursuant to section 43.4 to tabulate and report the number of persons attending the caucus favoring each presidential candidate who willfully fails to perform those duties, willfully falsifies the information, or willfully omits information required to be reported under section 43.4 commits a simple misdemeanor.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 1087-a31; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 646; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 43.119]

Section History: Recent form

  88 Acts, ch 1001, § 2

Footnotes

  Applicable chapters, § 43.5


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