CITE
18 USC Sec. 594 01/05/2009
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TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 29 - ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
HEAD
Sec. 594. Intimidation of voters
STATUTE
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.
SOURCE
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 720; Pub. L. 91-405, title II,
Sec. 204(d)(5), Sept. 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 853; Pub. L. 103-322,
title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 61, 61g (Aug. 2, 1939,
11:50 a.m. E.S.T., ch. 410, Secs. 1, 8, 53 Stat. 1147, 1148).
This section consolidates sections 61 and 61g of title 18,
U.S.C., 1940 ed., with changes in phraseology only.
AMENDMENTS
1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
"fined not more than $1,000".
1970 - Pub. L. 91-405 substituted "Delegate from the District of
Columbia, or Resident Commissioner" for "Delegates or Commissioners
from the Territories and possessions".
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 91-405 effective Sept. 22, 1970, see section
206(b) of Pub. L. 91-405, set out as an Effective Date note under
section 25a of Title 2, The Congress.