2006 Utah Code - 20A-1-603 — Fraud, interference, disturbance -- Tampering with ballots or records.

     20A-1-603.   Fraud, interference, disturbance -- Tampering with ballots or records.
     (1) It is unlawful for:
     (a) any person who is not entitled to vote to fraudulently vote; and
     (b) any person to:
     (i) vote more than once at any one election;
     (ii) knowingly hand in two or more ballots folded together;
     (iii) change any ballot after it has been deposited in the ballot box;
     (iv) add or attempt to add any ballot to those legally polled at any election by fraudulently introducing the ballot into the ballot box either before or after the ballots have been counted;
     (v) add to or mix, or attempt to add or mix, other ballots with the ballots lawfully polled while those ballots are being counted or canvassed, or at any other time;
     (vi) willfully detain, mutilate, or destroy any election returns;
     (vii) in any manner, interfere with the officers holding an election or conducting a canvass, or with the voters lawfully exercising their rights of voting at an election, so as to prevent the election or canvass from being fairly held or lawfully conducted;
     (viii) engage in riotous conduct at any election or interfere in any manner with any election officer in the discharge of his duties;
     (ix) induce any election officer, or officer whose duty it is to ascertain, announce, or declare the result of any election or to give or make any certificate, document, or evidence in relation to any election, to violate or refuse to comply with his duty or any law regulating his duty;
     (x) take, carry away, conceal, remove, or destroy any ballot, pollbook, or other thing from a polling place, or from the possession of the person authorized by law to have the custody of that thing; or
     (xi) aid, counsel, provide, procure, advise, or assist any person to do any of the acts specified in this section.
     (2) In addition to the penalties established in Section 20A-1-609, any person convicted of any of the offenses established in this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by both a fine and imprisonment.

Enacted by Chapter 1, 1993 General Session