HB4587 S JUD AM #1

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The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting section and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

ARTICLE 9. OFFENSES AND PENALTIES.

§3-9-19. Violations concerning absent voters= ballots; penalties.

(a) Any person who, with the intent to commit fraud, obtains, removes, or disseminates an absent voters” voter’s ballot, intimidates an absent voter, or completes or alters an absent voters” voter’s ballot, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $10,000 nor more than $20,000, imprisoned in a state correctional facility for not less than one nor more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, any person who, having procured an absent voter's official ballot or ballots, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to return the same as provided in article three of this chapter, or who shall otherwise wilfully violate any of the provisions of said article three of this chapter, shall be is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than two hundred and fifty dollars $250, or confined in the county jail for not more than three months. If the clerk of the circuit court county commission of any county, or any member of the board of ballot commissioners, or any member of the board of canvassers shall refuse refuses or neglect neglects to perform any of the duties required of him or her by any of the provisions of articles three, five and six of this chapter relating to voting by absentees or shall discloses to any other person or persons how any absent voter voted, he or she shall, in each instance, be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars $500, or confined in the county jail for not more than six months.

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