Florida Statutes Title IX Chapter 104 - Election Code: Violations; Penalties

• 104.011 - False Swearing; Submission Of False Voter Registration Information.
  (1) A person who willfully swears or affirms falsely to any oath or affirmation, or willfully procures another person to swear or affirm falsely to an...
• 104.012 - Consideration For Registration; Interference With Registration; Soliciting Registrations For Compensation; Alteration Of Registration Application.
  (1) Any person who gives anything of value that is redeemable in cash to any person in consideration for his or her becoming a registered voter...
• 104.013 - Unauthorized Use, Possession, Or Destruction Of Voter Information Card.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to have in his or her possession any blank, forged, stolen, fictitious, counterfeit, or unlawfully issued voter information...
• 104.031 - False Declaration To Secure Assistance In Preparing Ballot.
  Any person who makes a false declaration for assistance in voting, or in the preparation of his or her ballot, in any election is guilty...
• 104.041 - Fraud In Connection With Casting Vote.
  Any person perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate or aid in the perpetration of any fraud in connection with any vote cast, to be cast, or...
• 104.045 - Vote Selling.
  Any person who:(1) Corruptly offers to vote for or against, or to refrain from voting for or against, any candidate in any election in return for...
• 104.047 - Absentee Ballots And Voting; Violations.
  (1) Except as provided in s. 101.62 or s. 101.655, any person who requests an absentee ballot on behalf of an elector is guilty of a...
• 104.051 - Violations; Neglect Of Duty; Corrupt Practices.
  (1) Any official who willfully violates any of the provisions of this election code shall be excluded from the polls. Any election official who is excluded...
• 104.0515 - Voting Rights; Deprivation Of, Or Interference With, Prohibited; Penalty.
  (1) All citizens of this state who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in this state or in any...
• 104.061 - Corruptly Influencing Voting.
  (1) Whoever by bribery, menace, threat, or other corruption whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, attempts to influence, deceive, or deter any elector in voting or interferes...
• 104.0615 - Voter Intimidation Or Suppression Prohibited; Criminal Penalties.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Voter Protection Act.”(2) A person may not directly or indirectly use or threaten to use force, violence, or intimidation...
• 104.0616 - Absentee Ballots And Voting; Violations.
  (1) For purposes of this section, the term “immediate family” means a person’s spouse or the parent, child, grandparent, or sibling of the person or the...
• 104.071 - Remuneration By Candidate For Services, Support, Etc.; Penalty.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person supporting a candidate, or for any candidate, in order to aid or promote the nomination or election of such...
• 104.081 - Threats Of Employers To Control Votes Of Employees.
  It is unlawful for any person having one or more persons in his or her service as employees to discharge or threaten to discharge any...
• 104.091 - Aiding, Abetting, Advising, Or Conspiring In Violation Of The Code.
  (1) Any person who knowingly aids, abets, or advises the violation of this code shall be punished in like manner as the principal offender.(2) Any person who...
• 104.101 - Failure To Assist Officers At Polls.
  Any person summoned by the sheriff or deputy sheriff who fails or refuses to assist him or her in maintaining the peace at the polls...
• 104.11 - Neglect Of Duty By Sheriff Or Other Officer.
  Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other officer who willfully neglects or willfully refuses to perform his or her duties relating to elections is guilty of...
• 104.13 - Intermingling Ballots.
  Whoever willfully places any ballot in the ballot box except as properly voted by electors, or willfully intermingles any other ballots which have not been...
• 104.15 - Unqualified Electors Willfully Voting.
  Whoever, knowing he or she is not a qualified elector, willfully votes at any election is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable...
• 104.16 - Voting Fraudulent Ballot.
  Any elector who knowingly votes or attempts to vote a fraudulent ballot, or any person who knowingly solicits, or attempts, to vote a fraudulent ballot,...
• 104.17 - Voting In Person After Casting Absentee Ballot.
  Any person who willfully votes or attempts to vote both in person and by absentee ballot at any election is guilty of a felony of...
• 104.18 - Casting More Than One Ballot At Any Election.
  Except as provided in s. 101.6952, whoever willfully votes more than one ballot at any election commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as...
• 104.185 - Petitions; Knowingly Signing More Than Once; Signing Another Person’s Name Or A Fictitious Name.
  (1) A person who knowingly signs a petition or petitions for a candidate, a minor political party, or an issue more than one time commits a...
• 104.19 - Using Stickers Or Rubber Stamps Or Carrying Certain Items In Voting Booth; Penalty.
  (1)(a) It is unlawful for any person casting a ballot at any election to use stickers or rubber stamps or to carry into a voting booth...
• 104.20 - Ballot Not To Be Seen, And Other Offenses.
  Any elector who, except as provided by law, allows his or her ballot to be seen by any person; takes or removes, or attempts to...
• 104.21 - Changing Electors’ Ballots.
  Whoever fraudulently changes or attempts to change the vote or ballot of any elector, by which actions such elector is prevented from voting such ballot...
• 104.22 - Stealing And Destroying Records, Etc., Of Election.
  Any person who is guilty of stealing, willfully and wrongfully breaking, destroying, mutilating, defacing, or unlawfully moving or securing and detaining the whole or any...
• 104.23 - Disclosing How Elector Votes.
  Any election official or person assisting any elector who willfully discloses how any elector voted, except upon trial in court, is guilty of a felony...
• 104.24 - Penalty For Assuming Name.
  A person may not, in connection with any part of the election process, fraudulently call himself or herself, or fraudulently pass by, any other name...
• 104.26 - Penalty For Destroying Ballot Or Booth, Etc.
  Any person who wrongfully, during or before an election, removes, tears down, destroys, or defaces any ballot, booth, compartment, or other convenience provided for the...
• 104.271 - False Or Malicious Charges Against, Or False Statements About, Opposing Candidates; Penalty.
  (1) Any candidate who, in a primary election or other election, willfully charges an opposing candidate participating in such election with a violation of any provision...
• 104.2715 - False Representations Of Military Service; Penalty.
  (1) A candidate who, in a primary or other election, falsely represents, directly or indirectly, that he or she served or is currently serving in the...
• 104.29 - Inspectors Refusing To Allow Watchers While Ballots Are Counted.
  The inspectors or other election officials at the polling place shall, after the polls close, allow as many as three persons near to them to...
• 104.30 - Voting System; Unlawful Possession; Tampering.
  (1) Any unauthorized person who unlawfully has possession of any voting system, components, or key thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable...
• 104.31 - Political Activities Of State, County, And Municipal Officers And Employees.
  (1) No officer or employee of the state, or of any county or municipality thereof, except as hereinafter exempted from provisions hereof, shall:(a) Use his or her...
• 104.32 - Supervisor Of Elections; Delivery Of Books To Successor.
  Any supervisor of elections who willfully fails or refuses promptly to comply with the demand of his or her successor for the delivery of registration...
• 104.39 - Witnesses As To Violations.
  Any person who violates any provision of this code shall be a competent witness against any other person so violating and may be compelled to...
• 104.41 - Violations Not Otherwise Provided For.
  Any violation of this code not otherwise provided for is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.History.—s....
• 104.42 - Fraudulent Registration And Illegal Voting; Investigation.
  (1) The supervisor of elections is authorized to investigate fraudulent registrations and illegal voting and to report his or her findings to the local state attorney...
• 104.43 - Grand Juries; Special Investigation.
  The grand jury in any circuit shall, upon the request of any candidate or qualified voter, make a special investigation when it convenes during a...

Last modified: September 23, 2016