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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="16-201" title_number="16" title_name="Offenses and Penalties" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Voting and Electoral Operations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “influence” includes the use of pressure, deception, trickery, or direct or indirect authority to induce action or to change the decision or act of another, regardless of the medium used.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not willfully and knowingly:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>impersonate another person in order to vote or attempt to vote; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>vote or attempt to vote under a false name;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>vote more than once for a candidate for the same office or for the same ballot question;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>vote or attempt to vote more than once in the same election, or vote in more than one election district or precinct;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>vote in an election district or precinct without the legal authority to vote in that election district or precinct;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>influence or attempt to influence a voter’s voting decision through the use of force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, reward, or offer of reward;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>influence or attempt to influence a voter’s decision, through the use of force, fraud, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, reward, or offer of reward, whether to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>go to the polls to cast a vote; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>vote by other lawful means; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>engage in conduct that results or has the intent to result in the denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race, color, or disability.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as provided in § 16–1002 of this title, a person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than 5 years or both.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person who violates this section is subject to § 5–106(b) of the Courts Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
