1. A person who unlawfully and by force, or threats of force, prevents or endeavors to prevent an elector from giving the elector's vote at any public election commits an aggravated misdemeanor.
2. A person who procures, or endeavors to procure, the vote of an elector for or against any candidate or for or against any issue by means of violence, threats of violence, or by any means of duress commits an aggravated misdemeanor.
[C51, § 2698; R60, § 4340; C73, § 4000; C97, § 4924; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 13275; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 738.13; C79, 81, § 722.8]
2000 Acts, ch 1201, §13
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