Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5136 – Tampering with ballots or deceiving voters; penalty
Whoever:
(1) Fraudulently changes or alters the ballot of any elector, or substitutes 1 ballot for another, or fraudulently furnishes any elector with a ballot containing more than the proper number of names; or
(2) Intentionally practices any fraud upon any elector to induce the elector to deposit a ballot as that elector’s own vote and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom such elector intended to vote; or
(3) Otherwise defrauds the elector of the elector’s vote,
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 5136
- Ballot: means those portions of cardboard, paper or other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting machine or to be used for absentee voting in order to list the names of the offices to be voted for, the name of each candidate and the designation of the party by which the candidate is nominated, a space for the voter to write in the name of any candidate of that voter's choice for any office, and the statement of any question submitted with provision for a "yes" or "no" vote. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
19 Del. Laws, c. 39, § ?44; Code 1915, § ?1803; Code 1935, § ?1892; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?5138; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;