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The following acts are declared to be election offenses and corrupt practices and are prohibited:

A. Inducing, compelling, or attempting to induce or compel any person to vote or refrain from voting for any candidate in any election or for or against any election proposition or question by directly or indirectly using or threatening to use force, coercion, violence or restraint or inflicting or threatening to inflict damage, harm or loss upon or against the person;

B. Giving, promising to give, or offering any money or other valuable thing to any person with the intent of inducing him or her to vote for or restrain from voting for any candidate or for or against any election proposition or question;

C. Writing, printing or circulating, or causing to be written, printed or circulated, any letter, circular, bill, placard or poster or other publication relating to any election or to any candidate at any election or to any election proposition or question without the same bearing on its face the name and address of the author, printer, and publisher thereof;

D. Writing, printing or circulating, or causing to be written, printed or circulated, any letter, circular, bill, placard or poster, or causing any paid advertising to be placed in a newspaper or any other publication, or paying or contributing to the payment for such advertisement, or making any radio broadcast, with knowledge that the letter, circular, bill, placard or broadcast contains any false statement, charge or comment relating to any candidate at any election or to any election proposition or question;

E. Possessing an official ballot outside of the voting room if not authorized by law to do so;

F. While the polls are open, opening any ballot received from a voter, or marking a ballot by folding or some other manner so as to be able to recognize it, or otherwise attempting to learn how any voter marked the voter’s ballot;

G. Publishing or causing to be published any letter, circular, poster, bill, publication or placard, knowing that it contains any false statement or false charges reflecting on the character, morality, or integrity of any candidate at any election;

H. Voting or attempting to vote in the name of another person or in any name other than the person’s own;

I. By force, threat, intimidation or offer of reward, inducing or attempting to induce any election judge or clerk to fail in their duty;

J. Willfully changing or causing to be changed any official election documents including ballots, tallies and returns, or attempting to do so;

K. Willfully delaying or causing to be delayed the election returns, or attempting to do so;

L. Willfully voting or attempting to vote more than once at the same election;

M. Willfully making a false affidavit or swearing falsely under the oath required by this chapter;

N. Willfully failing to perform any election duty or knowingly doing any unauthorized act with the intent to affect the election or its results, by any election judge or clerk;

O. Willfully permitting, making or attempting to make any false count of the election returns by an election judge or clerk;

P. Willfully concealing, withholding or destroying election returns or attempting to do so;

Q. Electioneering on election day within the polling place or within 200 feet of the building wherein the polling place is located. (Ord. 14-04-373 § 4)