2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 119 - ELECTION OFFENSES AND PROSECUTIONS 119.165 False personation of a voter -- Nonresident or unqualified person voting.
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119.165 False personation of a voter -- Nonresident or unqualified person
voting.
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(2)
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(4)
(5)
Any person who falsely personates a registered voter, and receives and casts
a ballot by means of such personation, shall be guilty of a Class D felony. An
attempt at such personation shall constitute a Class A misdemeanor.
Any person who, by means other than falsely personating a registered voter,
votes at an election in this state when he is a resident of another state or
country, or votes more than once at an election, or votes by use of the
naturalization papers of another person, shall be guilty of a Class D felony. Any
person who knowingly votes or attempts to vote in a precinct other than the
one in which he resides shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, unless by
voting in a precinct in which he does not live he is enabled to vote in a race or
on a matter in which he could not vote in his proper precinct in which case he
shall be guilty of a Class D felony. Any person who lends or hires his or
another's naturalization papers to be used for the purpose of voting shall be
subject to the same penalty.
Any resident of this state who, by means other than falsely personating a
registered voter, votes at a regular or special election before he has resided in
this state thirty (30) days, or in the county and precinct where the election is
held the time required by law, or before he has attained full age, or before he
has become a citizen, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
Any person who, by means other than falsely personating a registered voter,
votes in a primary election knowing that he is not qualified as provided in KRS
116.055, shall be guilty of a violation.
Any person who applies for or receives a ballot at any voting place other than
the one at which he is entitled to vote, under circumstances not constituting a
violation of any of the provisions of subsections (1) to (4) of this section, shall
be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Effective:July 14, 1992
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 463, sec. 12, effective July 14, 1992. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 74, effective July 13, 1990. -- Created 1974
Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 77.
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