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    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

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    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.