There is a newer version of the South Dakota Codified Laws
2011 South Dakota Code
Title 12 ELECTIONS
Chapter 26. Offenses Against The Elective Franchise
§12-26-23 Tampering with ballots, ballot box, or poll list as felony.
SD Codified L § 12-26-23 (through 2011) What's This?
12-26-23. Tampering with ballots, ballot box, or poll list as felony. A person who intentionally breaks, destroys, steals, or conceals any ballot box or any poll list used or intended to be used at any election, or who, before the ballots have been counted or canvassed, or during the time within which a contest or recount may be instituted or is pending and undisposed of, shall intentionally deface, change, injure, destroy, steal, or conceal any ballot or ballots which have been voted and deposited in any ballot box at an election, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Source: PenC 1877, § 83; CL 1887, § 6283; RPenC 1903, § 88; RC 1919, § 3675; SL 1923, ch 179; SDC 1939, § 13.0925; SL 1982, ch 86, § 127.
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