2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 39A - ELECTION MISCONDUCT
39A.2 - ELECTION MISCONDUCT IN THE FIRST DEGREE.

        39A.2  ELECTION MISCONDUCT IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
         1.  A person commits the crime of election misconduct in the first
      degree if the person willfully commits any of the following acts:
         a.  Registration fraud.
         (1)  Produces, procures, submits, or accepts a voter registration
      application that is known by the person to be materially false,
      fictitious, forged, or fraudulent.
         (2)  Falsely swears to an oath required pursuant to section
      48A.7A.
         b.  Vote fraud.
         (1)  Destroys, delivers, or handles an application for a ballot or
      an absentee ballot with the intent of interfering with the voter's
      right to vote.
         (2)  Produces, procures, submits, or accepts a ballot or an
      absentee ballot, or produces, procures, casts, accepts, or tabulates
      a ballot that is known by the person to be materially false,
      fictitious, forged, or fraudulent.
         (3)  Votes or attempts to vote more than once at the same
      election, or votes or attempts to vote at an election knowing oneself
      not to be qualified.
         (4)  Makes a false or untrue statement in an application for an
      absentee ballot or makes or signs a false certification or affidavit
      in connection with an absentee ballot.
         (5)  Otherwise deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or
      defraud the citizens of this state of a fair and impartially
      conducted election process.
         c.  Duress.  Intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts
      to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, a person to do or to refrain from
      doing any of the following:
         (1)  To register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register to
      vote.
         (2)  To urge or aid a person to register to vote, to vote, or to
      attempt to register to vote.
         (3)  To sign a petition nominating a candidate for public office
      or a petition requesting an election for which a petition may legally
      be submitted.
         (4)  To exercise a right under chapters 39 through 53.
         d.  Bribery.
         (1)  Pays, offers to pay, or causes to be paid money or any other
      thing of value to a person to influence the person's vote.
         (2)  Pays, offers to pay, or causes to be paid money or any other
      thing of value to an election official conditioned on some act done
      or omitted to be done contrary to the person's official duty in
      relation to an election.
         (3)  Receives money or any other thing of value knowing that it
      was given in violation of subparagraph (1) or (2).
         e.  Conspiracy.  Conspires with or acts as an accessory with
      another to commit an act in violation of paragraphs "a" through
      "d".
         f.  Voting equipment tampering.  Intentionally alters or
      damages any computer software or any physical part of voting
      equipment, automatic tabulating equipment, or any other part of a
      voting system.
         2.  Election misconduct in the first degree is a class "D" felony.
      

         2002 Acts, ch 1071, §2; 2007 Acts, ch 35, §1, 7; 2008 Acts, ch
      1115, §89, 90; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §3
         Referred to in § 49.11