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2023 Utah Code
Title 20A - Election Code
Chapter 3a - Voting
Part 5 - Voting Offenses
Section 504 - Violations -- Penalties.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 20A-3a-504 (2023)
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Effective 5/12/2020
20A-3a-504. Violations -- Penalties.
  • (1) Except as provided in Subsection (3) or Section 20A-3a-208, an individual is guilty of a class C misdemeanor if the individual:
    • (a) allows the individual's ballot to be seen by another with the intent to reveal how the individual is about to vote;
    • (b) states falsely that the individual is unable to mark the individual's ballot;
    • (c) interferes or attempts to interfere with any individual who is inside the voting booth or who is marking a ballot;
    • (d) induces or attempts to induce any voter who is inside a voting booth or who is marking a ballot to vote to show how the voter marked the voter's ballot; or
    • (e) takes a photograph of a ballot, other than the individual's own ballot, at a polling place.
  • (2) The election judges and clerks shall report any individual who violates this section to the county attorney or district attorney having state criminal jurisdiction for prosecution.
  • (3) Subsection (1) does not prohibit an individual from transferring a photograph of the individual's own ballot in a manner that allows the photograph to be viewed by the individual or another.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 31, 2020 General Session
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