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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 33.18.02.02" title_num="33" subtitle_num="18" chapter_num="02" heading="Prohibited Acts.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A person may not directly or indirectly give, offer, or promise money, aid, a gift, an advantage, a preferment, an emolument, or any other valuable thing to another person for the purpose of inducing or procuring that person to vote or refrain from voting for or against:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>An individual, question, or measure at an election or political convention; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The election of an officer by the General Assembly.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A person may not directly or indirectly receive, accept, request, or solicit money, aid, a gift, an advantage, a preferment, an emolument, or any other valuable thing from another person for the purpose of inducing or procuring a third person to vote or refrain from voting for or against an individual, question, or measure at an election or political convention.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A person may not vote or refrain from voting for or against an individual, question, or measure at an election or a political convention, in consideration of money, aid, a gift, an advantage, a preferment, an emolument, or any other valuable thing paid, received, accepted, or promised to the advantage of that person or of another person.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A person may not directly or indirectly give a contribution or contributions to a political committee in a name other than the person’s name.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Deep Fake. A person may not willfully or knowingly influence or attempt to influence a voter’s decision to go to the polls or to cast a vote by publishing, distributing, or disseminating material constituting or containing a deep fake within 90 days before an election without meeting the same requirements imposed on political committees under COMAR 33.13.07.02H.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>