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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="16-304" title_number="16" title_name="Offenses and Penalties" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Conduct of Election Officials">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In a polling place on election day, an election judge may not willfully and knowingly:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>permit a ballot or ballots to be placed into a ballot receptacle prior to the time for voting; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>place a ballot in a ballot receptacle unless the ballot is offered by a properly registered voter or is a provisional ballot placed with other provisional ballots of the same character.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>cause or permit a ballot, including a provisional ballot, to be cast or deposited in a ballot receptacle, voting device, or other receptacle designed for the collection of ballots other than by a person entitled under this article to cast a ballot; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>substitute, alter, add, or remove a submitted ballot from a ballot receptacle, voting device, or other receptacle designed for the collection of ballots, except when instructed to do so by the election director.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony and is subject to imprisonment for not less than 1 year nor more than 5 years.</text>
  </level>
</section>
