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[CITE: 18USC594]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
             CHAPTER 29--ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 594. Intimidation of voters

    Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, 
threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering 
with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, 
or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any 
candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential 
elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, 
Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any 
election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such 
candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
one year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 S