Section 17-132. Illegal voting  


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  • Any person who:
        1. Knowingly votes or offers or attempts to vote at any election, when
      not qualified; or,
        2.  Procures,  aids,  assists, counsels or advises any person to go or
      come into any election district,  for  the  purpose  of  voting  at  any
      election, knowing that such person is not qualified; or,
        3. Votes or offers or attempts to vote at an election, more than once;
      or  votes  or  offers or attempts to vote at an election under any other
      name than his own; or  votes  or  offers  or  attempts  to  vote  at  an
      election,  in  an  election  district  or from a place where he does not
      reside; or,
        4. Procures, aids, assists, commands or advises  another  to  vote  or
      offer or attempt to vote at an election, knowing that such person is not
      qualified to vote thereat; or,
        5. Prompts a person, applying to vote, to falsely answer questions put
      to  him  by the inspectors concerning his identity or qualifications for
      voting; or,
        6. Being an applicant for an absentee voter's ballot, makes a material
      false statement in his application, or a person  who  makes  a  material
      false  statement  in  a  medical  certificate  or  an affidavit filed in
      connection with an application for an absentee voter's ballot; or,
        7. Not being a qualified absentee voter, and having knowledge or being
      chargeable with knowledge of that fact, votes or attempts to vote as  an
      absentee voter; or,
        8.  Fraudulently  signs  the  name of another upon an absentee voter's
      envelope or aids in doing or  attempting  to  do  a  fraudulent  act  in
      connection with an absentee vote cast or attempted to be cast; or,
        9. Falsely pretends or represents to the inspectors of election or any
      of  them that he is incapacitated to mark his ballot, for the purpose of
      obtaining assistance in voting under the provisions of this chapter,  is
      guilty of a felony.
        Any  offer  or  attempt  under  this section shall be deemed to be the
      doing of any act made necessary  by  this  chapter  preliminary  to  the
      delivery  of  a ballot to an elector or the deposit of the ballot in the
      ballot box or his admission to the booth or voting machine enclosure.