Thom1776
02-08-2008, 04:25 PM
http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/download/law/2007NYElectionLaw.pdf
I culled the following from the chapter. From what I've seen and heard, ALL of these violations occurred in New York:
ARTICLE 17
VIOLATIONS OF THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
§ 17-102. Misdemeanors at, or in connection with, primary
elections, caucuses, enrollment in political parties, committees, and
conventions.
Any person who:
5. Fraudulently or wrongfully does any act tending to affect the result
of any primary election, caucus or convention; or,
6. Induces or attempts to induce any poll clerk, election inspector,
election coordinator, or officer, clerk or employee of the board of elections
discharging any duty or performing any act required or made necessary by the
election law at a primary election or in connection with the registration or
enrollment of voters, to do any act in violation of his duty or in violation of the
election law; or,
8. By menace or other unlawful or corrupt means, directly or
indirectly, influences or attempts to influence, the vote of any person entitled
to vote at a primary election or caucus, or convention, or obstructs such person
in voting, or prevents him from voting thereat; or,
10. Being an officer, teller, canvasser, or inspector, at a primary
election or caucus, knowingly permits any fraudulent vote to be cast, or
knowingly receives and deposits in the ballot box any ballots offered by any
person not qualified to vote; or permits the removal of ballots from the polling
place before the close of the polls, or refuses to receive ballots intended for the
electors of the district, or refuses to deliver to any elector ballots intended for
the electors of the district which have been delivered to the board of inspectors,
or permits electioneering within the polling place or within one hundred feet
therefrom, or fails to keep order within the polling place, or permits any person
other than the inspectors, or other persons permitted by this chapter to render
assistance, to accompany an elector into a voting booth, or enters the voting
booth with any elector, except one entitled to receive such assistance in the
preparation of his ballot, or permits any person, other than a voter who has not
voted, or a watcher to come within the guard rail or removes or permits another
to remove any mark placed upon a ballot for its identification; or,
12. Being an officer, teller, canvasser, election inspector, clerk or
employee of the board of elections or any officer of a political committee or a
convention, willfully omits, refuses or neglects to do any act required by this
chapter or otherwise by law, or violates any of the provisions of the election
law, or makes or attempts to make any false canvass of the ballots cast at a
primary election, caucus or convention, or a false statement of the result of a
canvass of the ballots cast thereat is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 17-106. Misconduct of election officers.
Any election officer who willfully refuses to accord to any duly
accredited watcher or to any voter or candidate any right given him by this
chapter, or who willfully violates any provision of the election law relative to
the registration of electors or to the taking, recording, counting, canvassing,
tallying or certifying of votes, or who willfully neglects or refuses to perform
any duty imposed on him by law, or is guilty of any fraud in the execution of
the duties of his office, or connives in any electoral fraud, or knowingly
permits any such fraud to be practiced, is guilty of a felony.
§ 17-110. Misdemeanors concerning police commissioners or
officers or members of any police force.
Any person who, being a police commissioner or any officer or
member of any police force in this state:
1. Uses or threatens or attempts to use his official power or authority,
in any manner, directly or indirectly, in aid of or against any political party,
organization, association or society, or to control, affect, influence, reward or
punish, the political adherence, affiliation, action, expression or opinion of any
citizen is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 17-116. Removal, mutilation or destruction of election booths,
supplies, poll-lists or cards of instruction.
Any person who:
2. Before the closing of the polls, willfully defaces or destroys any list
of candidates to be voted for such an election posted in accordance with the
election law; or,
3. During an election, willfully removes or defaces the cards for the
instruction of voters, posted in accordance with this chapter, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
§ 17-120. Misconduct in relation to certificate of nomination and
official ballot.
A person who:
5. Having charge of official ballots, destroys, conceals or suppresses
them, except as provided by the law. is guilty of a felony.
§ 17-128. Violations of election law by public officer or employee.
A public officer or employee who knowingly and willfully omits,
refuses or neglects to perform any act required of him by this chapter or who
knowingly and willfully refuses to permit the doing of any act authorized by
this chapter or who knowingly and willfully hinders or delays or attempts to
hinder or delay the performance of such an act is, if not otherwise provided by
law, guilty of a felony.
§ 17-134. Unlawful use of pasters.
An election officer or other person who uses a paster upon an official
ballot, at any election, except as authorized and in the manner provided by this
chapter, is guilty of a felony.
§ 17-152. Conspiracy to promote or prevent election.
Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the
election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which
conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
§ 17-166. Penalty.
Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under this article shall for a
first offense be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a
fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or
by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person who, having been convicted
of a misdemeanor under this article, shall thereafter be convicted of another
misdemeanor under this article, shall be guilty of a felony.
§ 17-168. Crimes against the elective franchise not otherwise
provided for.
Any person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of this
chapter, which violation is not specifically covered by any of the previous
sections of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
The people responsible for these acts need to be punished for their crimes against our Constitutional Republic and their violations of the very basic rights of liberty to which all Americans are entitled.
What they did was far worse than any "terrorist" attack on our country. These are the same people who say that men have fought and died for our right to vote, like those who are doing so in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well if the "terrorists" hate us because we can vote, then these people are just as much terrorists as anyone.
I culled the following from the chapter. From what I've seen and heard, ALL of these violations occurred in New York:
ARTICLE 17
VIOLATIONS OF THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
§ 17-102. Misdemeanors at, or in connection with, primary
elections, caucuses, enrollment in political parties, committees, and
conventions.
Any person who:
5. Fraudulently or wrongfully does any act tending to affect the result
of any primary election, caucus or convention; or,
6. Induces or attempts to induce any poll clerk, election inspector,
election coordinator, or officer, clerk or employee of the board of elections
discharging any duty or performing any act required or made necessary by the
election law at a primary election or in connection with the registration or
enrollment of voters, to do any act in violation of his duty or in violation of the
election law; or,
8. By menace or other unlawful or corrupt means, directly or
indirectly, influences or attempts to influence, the vote of any person entitled
to vote at a primary election or caucus, or convention, or obstructs such person
in voting, or prevents him from voting thereat; or,
10. Being an officer, teller, canvasser, or inspector, at a primary
election or caucus, knowingly permits any fraudulent vote to be cast, or
knowingly receives and deposits in the ballot box any ballots offered by any
person not qualified to vote; or permits the removal of ballots from the polling
place before the close of the polls, or refuses to receive ballots intended for the
electors of the district, or refuses to deliver to any elector ballots intended for
the electors of the district which have been delivered to the board of inspectors,
or permits electioneering within the polling place or within one hundred feet
therefrom, or fails to keep order within the polling place, or permits any person
other than the inspectors, or other persons permitted by this chapter to render
assistance, to accompany an elector into a voting booth, or enters the voting
booth with any elector, except one entitled to receive such assistance in the
preparation of his ballot, or permits any person, other than a voter who has not
voted, or a watcher to come within the guard rail or removes or permits another
to remove any mark placed upon a ballot for its identification; or,
12. Being an officer, teller, canvasser, election inspector, clerk or
employee of the board of elections or any officer of a political committee or a
convention, willfully omits, refuses or neglects to do any act required by this
chapter or otherwise by law, or violates any of the provisions of the election
law, or makes or attempts to make any false canvass of the ballots cast at a
primary election, caucus or convention, or a false statement of the result of a
canvass of the ballots cast thereat is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 17-106. Misconduct of election officers.
Any election officer who willfully refuses to accord to any duly
accredited watcher or to any voter or candidate any right given him by this
chapter, or who willfully violates any provision of the election law relative to
the registration of electors or to the taking, recording, counting, canvassing,
tallying or certifying of votes, or who willfully neglects or refuses to perform
any duty imposed on him by law, or is guilty of any fraud in the execution of
the duties of his office, or connives in any electoral fraud, or knowingly
permits any such fraud to be practiced, is guilty of a felony.
§ 17-110. Misdemeanors concerning police commissioners or
officers or members of any police force.
Any person who, being a police commissioner or any officer or
member of any police force in this state:
1. Uses or threatens or attempts to use his official power or authority,
in any manner, directly or indirectly, in aid of or against any political party,
organization, association or society, or to control, affect, influence, reward or
punish, the political adherence, affiliation, action, expression or opinion of any
citizen is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 17-116. Removal, mutilation or destruction of election booths,
supplies, poll-lists or cards of instruction.
Any person who:
2. Before the closing of the polls, willfully defaces or destroys any list
of candidates to be voted for such an election posted in accordance with the
election law; or,
3. During an election, willfully removes or defaces the cards for the
instruction of voters, posted in accordance with this chapter, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
§ 17-120. Misconduct in relation to certificate of nomination and
official ballot.
A person who:
5. Having charge of official ballots, destroys, conceals or suppresses
them, except as provided by the law. is guilty of a felony.
§ 17-128. Violations of election law by public officer or employee.
A public officer or employee who knowingly and willfully omits,
refuses or neglects to perform any act required of him by this chapter or who
knowingly and willfully refuses to permit the doing of any act authorized by
this chapter or who knowingly and willfully hinders or delays or attempts to
hinder or delay the performance of such an act is, if not otherwise provided by
law, guilty of a felony.
§ 17-134. Unlawful use of pasters.
An election officer or other person who uses a paster upon an official
ballot, at any election, except as authorized and in the manner provided by this
chapter, is guilty of a felony.
§ 17-152. Conspiracy to promote or prevent election.
Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the
election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which
conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
§ 17-166. Penalty.
Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under this article shall for a
first offense be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a
fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or
by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person who, having been convicted
of a misdemeanor under this article, shall thereafter be convicted of another
misdemeanor under this article, shall be guilty of a felony.
§ 17-168. Crimes against the elective franchise not otherwise
provided for.
Any person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of this
chapter, which violation is not specifically covered by any of the previous
sections of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
The people responsible for these acts need to be punished for their crimes against our Constitutional Republic and their violations of the very basic rights of liberty to which all Americans are entitled.
What they did was far worse than any "terrorist" attack on our country. These are the same people who say that men have fought and died for our right to vote, like those who are doing so in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well if the "terrorists" hate us because we can vote, then these people are just as much terrorists as anyone.