Section 9-364 - Influencing elector to refrain from voting.

CT Gen Stat § 9-364 (2019) (N/A)
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Any person who, with intent to disenfranchise any elector, influences or attempts to influence by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means any elector to stay away from any election shall be guilty of a class D felony.

(1949 Rev., S. 1123; 1953, S. 841d; P.A. 12-193, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 12-193 added provision re intent to disenfranchise an elector, inserted “by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means” and changed penalty from a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment of not more than 1 year or less than 3 months to a class D felony, effective July 1, 2012.