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NE Code § 32-1516 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1516 - Candidate filing form; initials or signatures on ballot; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1516.  Candidate filing form; initials or signatures on ballot; prohibited acts; penalty.Any person who falsely makes or falsely swears to any candidate filing form or any part thereof, fraudulently defaces or destroys any candidate filing form or any part thereof, files or receives for filing any candidate filing form knowing that the form or any part thereof is falsely made, suppresses any duly filed candidate filing form or any part thereof, or forges or falsely places any initials or signatures on any ballot under section 32-916 or 32-947 shall be guilty of a Class III felony.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 415;   Laws 1997, LB 764, § 107.
NE Code § 32-1517 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1517 - Election officials; employers; prohibited acts; penalties.

32-1517.  Election officials; employers; prohibited acts; penalties.(1) Any person appointed to be a precinct or district inspector or a judge or clerk of election who refuses, neglects, or fails to serve without excuse shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor.(2) Any employer of a person appointed to be a precinct or district inspector or a judge or clerk of election who threatens to discharge or coerces or attempts to coerce such person by reason of his or her service as an inspector or a judge or clerk of election shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor and such employer shall be subject to a mandatory five-hundred-dollar fine upon conviction.(3) Any employer of a person appointed to be a precinct or district inspector or a judge or clerk of election who discharges such person from employment, docks such person's pay, overtime pay, sick leave, or vacation time, or in any other way penalizes such person because of his or her service as an inspector, a judge, or a clerk shall be guilty of a Class III felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 416.
NE Code § 32-1518 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1518 - Election officials; other violations of Election Act; penalty.

32-1518.  Election officials; other violations of Election Act; penalty.Any judge or clerk of election, any precinct or district inspector, or any other person upon whom any duty is imposed by the Election Act relating to elections who willfully does or performs anything prohibited by the act for which no other penalty is provided or neglects or omits to perform any such duty shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor and shall forfeit his or her office.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 417. Annotations Under this section, a county clerk who neglects to furnish ballots and correct them, as required by the election laws, is liable to forfeit his office and to be fined and imprisoned. Wahlquist v. Adams County, 94 Neb. 682, 144 N.W. 171 (1913).
NE Code § 32-1519 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1519 - Judge or clerk of election; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1519.  Judge or clerk of election; prohibited acts; penalty.(1) Any judge of election who (a) knowingly receives or sanctions the reception of an improper or illegal vote from any person who is not a registered voter, (b) receives or sanctions the reception of a ballot from any person who refuses to answer any question which is put to him or her in accordance with the Election Act, (c) refuses to take the oath prescribed by the act, (d) sanctions the refusal by any other judge of election to administer any oath required by the act when such oath is required, or (e) refuses to receive or sanctions the rejection of a ballot from any registered voter at the place where such registered voter properly and legally offers to vote shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.(2) Any judge or clerk of election on whom any duty is enjoined by the act who willfully neglects any such duty or who engages in any corrupt conduct in the discharge of his or her duty shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 418.
NE Code § 32-1520 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1520 - Ballot with unlawful printing; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1520.  Ballot with unlawful printing; prohibited acts; penalty.Any person causing ballots to be printed with a designated heading containing a name or names not found on the official ballot having such heading or any person knowingly peddling or distributing any such ballot with the intent to have such ballot voted at any election shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 419.
NE Code § 32-1521 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1521 - Persons authorized to print and distribute ballots; violation; penalty.

32-1521.  Persons authorized to print and distribute ballots; violation; penalty.Any person who prints or causes to be printed or distributed any ballot marked Official Ballot other than an election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 420.
NE Code § 32-1522 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1522 - Ballots and other election documents; prohibited acts; penalties.

32-1522.  Ballots and other election documents; prohibited acts; penalties.(1) A judge or clerk of election, a printer, or any other person entrusted with the custody or delivery of ballots, blanks, list of voters book and official summary of votes cast, card of instructions, or other required papers who knowingly and willfully (a) unlawfully opens or permits to be opened any sealed packages containing ballots, (b) gives or delivers to any person not lawfully entitled thereto an official ballot, or (c) unlawfully misplaces or carries away, negligently loses, permits to be taken away from him or her, fails to deliver, or destroys any such package of ballots or any ballot, blank, list of voters book and official summary of votes cast, card of instructions, or other required paper shall be guilty of a Class III felony.(2) Any printer employed to print the official ballots or any person engaged in printing the same who knowingly and willfully (a) prints or causes or permits to be printed any official ballots printed otherwise than the copy for the same furnished by the election commissioner or county clerk, (b) prints any false or fraudulent ballots, (c) appropriates any of such ballots to himself or herself or gives, delivers, or knowingly permits any of such ballots to be taken by any person other than the election commissioner or county clerk, or (d) seals up or causes or permits to be sealed up or delivers to the election commissioner or county clerk a less number of ballots than the number endorsed thereon shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.(3) Any person who knowingly has in his or her possession any official ballot illegally obtained or attempts to vote any ballot other than the official ballot lawfully obtained shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 421.
NE Code § 32-1523 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1523 - Obstruction of polling place or building; penalty.

32-1523.  Obstruction of polling place or building; penalty.Any person who obstructs the doors or entries or prevents free ingress to and egress from a polling place or building shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 422.
NE Code § 32-1524 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1524 - Electioneering; circulation of petitions; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1524.  Electioneering; circulation of petitions; prohibited acts; penalty.(1) For purposes of this section:(a) Electioneering means the deliberate, visible display or audible or physical dissemination of information for the purpose of advocating for or against:(i) Any candidate on the ballot for the election at which such display or dissemination is occurring;(ii) Any elected officeholder of a state constitutional office or federal office at the time of the election at which such display or dissemination is occurring;(iii) Any political party on the ballot for the election at which such display or dissemination is occurring; or(iv) Any measure on the ballot for the election at which such display or dissemination is occurring; and(b) Information includes:(i) Such a candidate's name, likeness, logo, or symbol;(ii) Such a ballot measure's number, title, subject matter, logo, or symbol;(iii) A button, hat, pencil, pen, shirt, sign, or sticker containing information prohibited by this section;(iv) Audible information prohibited by this section; and(v) Literature or any writing or drawing referring to a candidate, officeholder, or ballot measure described in subdivision (a) of this subsection.(2) No judge or clerk of election or precinct or district inspector shall do any electioneering while acting as an election official.(3) No person shall do any electioneering or circulate petitions within any polling place or any building designated for voters to cast ballots by the election commissioner or county clerk pursuant to the Election Act while the polling place or building is set up for voters to cast ballots or within two hundred feet of any such polling place or building except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section.(4) Subject to any local ordinance, a person may display yard signs on private property within two hundred feet of a polling place or building designated for voters to cast ballots if the property is not under common ownership with the property on which the polling place or building is located.(5) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 423;  Laws 2006, LB 940, § 2;  Laws 2016, LB874, § 7;  Laws 2019, LB411, § 65.
NE Code § 32-1525 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1525 - Polling and interviews; poll watchers; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1525.  Polling and interviews; poll watchers; prohibited acts; penalty.(1) No person shall conduct an exit poll, a public opinion poll, or any other interview with voters on election day seeking to determine voter preference within twenty feet of the entrance of any polling place or, if inside the polling place or building, within one hundred feet of any voting booth.(2)(a) No poll watcher shall interfere with any voter in the preparation or casting of such voter's ballot or prevent any election worker from performing the worker's duties.(b) A poll watcher shall not provide assistance to a voter as described in section 32-918 unless selected by the voter to provide assistance as provided in section 32-918.(c) A poll watcher shall not engage in electioneering as defined in section 32-1524 while engaged in observing at a polling place.(d) A poll watcher shall maintain a distance of at least eight feet from the sign-in table, the sign-in register, the polling booths, the ballot box, and any ballots which have not been cast, except that if the polling place is not large enough for a distance of eight feet, the judge of election shall post a notice of the minimum distance the poll watcher must maintain from the sign-in table, the sign-in register, the polling booths, the ballot box, and any ballots which have not been cast. The posted notice shall be clearly visible to the voters and shall be posted prior to the opening of the polls on election day. The minimum distance shall not be determined to exclude a poll watcher from being in the polling place.(3) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 424;  Laws 2020, LB1055, § 18.
NE Code § 32-1526 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1526 - Fraudulent placement of ballot in ballot box; penalty.

32-1526.  Fraudulent placement of ballot in ballot box; penalty.Any judge or clerk of election who puts a ballot into the ballot box, except his or her own ballot or such as may be received in the regular discharge of his or her duties as a judge or clerk, or who knowingly permits any ballot which was fraudulently placed or deposited in such ballot box by any other person to remain in the ballot box or to be counted with the legal votes cast at such election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 425.
NE Code § 32-1527 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1527 - Voting of ballots; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1527.  Voting of ballots; prohibited acts; penalty.(1) No voter shall receive an official ballot from any person other than a judge of election, and no person other than a judge of election shall deliver an official ballot to a voter.(2) No voter shall vote or offer to vote any ballot except an official ballot received from a judge of election.(3) No voter shall place any mark upon an official ballot by which it may afterwards be identified as the one voted by him or her.(4) No person shall solicit a voter to show his or her ballot after it is marked to any person to reveal the contents thereof or the name of the candidate or candidates for whom he or she has marked his or her vote. This subsection does not prohibit a voter from voluntarily photographing his or her ballot after it is marked and revealing such photograph in a manner that allows the photograph to be viewed by another person.(5) No person other than a judge of election shall receive from a voter an official ballot prepared for voting.(6) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 426;  Laws 2016, LB874, § 8.
NE Code § 32-1528 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1528 - Nonresident of school district, village, or precinct; illegal voting; penalty.

32-1528.  Nonresident of school district, village, or precinct; illegal voting; penalty.Any person who votes a ballot in any school district, village, or precinct of a city in this state in which he or she does not actually reside or into which he or she has come for merely temporary purposes shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 427.Annotations  A voter was found to reside in a voting district for the purposes of this section when he had a bodily presence in the district, made improvements upon his home in the district, spent 5 to 10 nights per month at his home in the district, repeatedly exercised his right to vote in the district, and was forced to spend time outside the district for medical reasons. State v. Jensen, 269 Neb. 213, 691 N.W.2d 139 (2005). A voter was found to reside in a voting district for the purposes of this section when she had a physical presence at a home in the district, made improvements upon her home in the district, intended to remain at her home in the district, repeatedly voted in the district, and was forced to spend time outside the district to care for her son due to his medical condition. State v. Jensen, 269 Neb. 213, 691 N.W.2d 139 (2005). Whether a voter is habitually present at a particular residence is not dispositive of the issue of domicile for purposes of this section. State v. Jensen, 269 Neb. 213, 691 N.W.2d 139 (2005).
NE Code § 32-1529 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1529 - Nonresident of state; illegal voting; penalty.

32-1529.  Nonresident of state; illegal voting; penalty.Any resident of another state who votes in this state shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 428.
NE Code § 32-1530 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1530 - Ineligible voter; illegal voting; penalty.

32-1530.  Ineligible voter; illegal voting; penalty.Any person who votes (1) who is not a resident of this state or registered in the county or who at the time of election is not of the constitutionally prescribed age of a registered voter, (2) who is not a citizen of the United States, or (3) after being disqualified by law by reason of his or her conviction of a felony and prior to the end of the two-year period after completing the sentence, including any parole term, shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 429;  Laws 2005, LB 53, § 6.
NE Code § 32-1531 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1531 - Nonresident of county; illegal voting; penalty.

32-1531.  Nonresident of county; illegal voting; penalty.Except as provided in sections 32-933 to 32-937, any person who is a resident of this state and who goes or comes into any county of which he or she is not an actual resident and votes in such county shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 430.
NE Code § 32-1532 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1532 - Aiding and abetting ineligible voter; penalty.

32-1532.  Aiding and abetting ineligible voter; penalty.Any person who procures, aids, assists, counsels, or advises another to give his or her vote, knowing that such other person is not a resident of this state or a registered voter of the county as required by law at the time of election, is not of the constitutionally prescribed age of a registered voter, is not a citizen of the United States, or is not duly qualified as a result of any other disability to vote at the place where and the time when the vote is to be given shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 431.
NE Code § 32-1533 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1533 - Aiding and abetting nonresident of county; penalty.

32-1533.  Aiding and abetting nonresident of county; penalty.Any person who procures, aids, assists, counsels, or advises another to go or come into any county for the purpose of giving his or her vote in such county knowing that the other person is not duly qualified to vote in such county shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 432.
NE Code § 32-1534 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1534 - Voting more than once; penalty.

32-1534.  Voting more than once; penalty.Any person who votes more than once at the same election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 433.
NE Code § 32-1535 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1535 - Unauthorized removal of ballots; penalty.

32-1535.  Unauthorized removal of ballots; penalty.Any person who removes any ballot from the polling room before the closing of the polls except as otherwise authorized under the Election Act shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 434.
NE Code § 32-1536 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1536 - Bribery; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1536.  Bribery; prohibited acts; penalty.(1) Any person who accepts or receives any valuable thing as a consideration for his or her vote for any person to be voted for at any election shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.(2) Any person who, by bribery, attempts to influence any voter of this state in voting, uses any threat to procure any voter to vote contrary to the inclination of such voter, or deters any voter from voting shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 435.
NE Code § 32-1537 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1537 - Employer; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1537.  Employer; prohibited acts; penalty.Any person who (1) coerces or attempts to coerce any of his or her employees in their voting or in any other political action at any caucus, convention, or election held or to be held in this state or (2) attempts to influence the political action of his or her employees by threatening to discharge them because of their political action or by threats on the part of such person to close his or her place of business in the event of the passage or defeat of any issue on the ballot, in the event of the election or defeat of any candidate for public office, or in the event of the success or defeat of any political party at any election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 436.
NE Code § 32-1538 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1538 - Fraudulent assistance of illiterate voter; penalty.

32-1538.  Fraudulent assistance of illiterate voter; penalty.Any person who, with intent to induce a voter who cannot read to vote contrary to his or her inclination, furnishes the voter with a ballot and informs him or her that the ballot contains a name or names different from the name or names which are written or printed on the ballot or who fraudulently or deceitfully changes a ballot of any voter so that such voter is prevented from voting for the candidate or candidates as he or she intended shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 437.
NE Code § 32-1539 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1539 - Ballot for early voting; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1539.  Ballot for early voting; prohibited acts; penalty.Any person who (1) impersonates or makes a false representation in order to obtain a ballot for early voting, (2) knowingly connives to help a person to vote such a ballot illegally, (3) destroys, steals, marks, or mutilates any such ballot after the same has been voted or aids or abets another to do so, (4) delays in delivering such a ballot to the election commissioner or county clerk to prevent the ballot from arriving in time to be counted, (5) in any manner aids or attempts to aid any person to vote such a ballot unlawfully, (6) hinders or attempts to hinder a registered voter from voting any such ballot, or (7) hinders or attempts to hinder any official from delivering or counting any such ballot shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 438;  Laws 2005, LB 98, § 31.
NE Code § 32-1540 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1540 - Fraudulent placement of ballot into ballot box; penalty.

32-1540.  Fraudulent placement of ballot into ballot box; penalty.Any person who fraudulently puts a ballot into the ballot box shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 439.
NE Code § 32-1541 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1541 - List of voters book; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1541.  List of voters book; prohibited acts; penalty.Any person who willfully, knowingly, and with fraudulent intent inscribes, writes, or causes to be inscribed or written in or upon any list of voters book the name of any person not entitled to vote at such election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 440.
NE Code § 32-1542 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1542 - Election records and returns; prohibited acts; penalty.

32-1542.  Election records and returns; prohibited acts; penalty.Any person who has in his or her possession any falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited list of voters book, official summary of votes cast, or election returns of any election and who knows such book, summary, or election returns to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, with the intent to hinder, defeat, or prevent a fair expression of the popular will at such election, shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 441.
NE Code § 32-1543 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 32 - Elections|32-1543 - Unlawful destruction or possession of ballot or ballot box; penalty.

32-1543.  Unlawful destruction or possession of ballot or ballot box; penalty.Any person who unlawfully attempts to destroy a ballot or who unlawfully, by force, violence, fraud, or other improper means, obtains or attempts to obtain possession of a ballot box or a ballot which was deposited in a ballot box while the voting at the election is going on or before the ballots have been duly taken out of the ballot box by a judge of election shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.Source  Laws 1994, LB 76, § 442.