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Idaho
Statutes Title
18, Chapter 23, Crimes and Punishments
TITLE 18, CHAPTER 23, CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS, ELECTIONS
18-2304. PROCURING ILLEGAL VOTES. Every person who procures, aids, assists, counsels or
advises another to give or offer his vote at any election, knowing that the person is not qualified to vote,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
18-2305. INTIMIDATION, CORRUPTION AND FRAUDS. Every person who, by force, threats,
menaces, bribery, or any corrupt means, either directly or indirectly attempts to influence any elector
in giving his vote, or to deter him from giving the same, or attempts by any means whatever, to awe,
restrain, hinder or disturb any elector in the free exercise of the right of suffrage, or furnishes any
elector wishing to vote, who can not read, with a ticket, informing or giving such elector to understand
that it contains a name written or printed thereon different from the name which is written or printed
thereon, or defrauds any elector at any such election, by deceiving and causing such elector to vote for
a different person, for any office, than he intended or desired to vote for; or who, being officer, judge,
or clerk of any election, while acting as such, induces, or attempts to induce, any elector, either by
menace or reward, or promise thereof, to vote differently from what such elector intended or desired
to vote, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
18-2306. ILLEGAL VOTING OR INTERFERENCE WITH ELECTION. Every person not entitled to vote,
who fraudulently votes, and every person who votes more than once at any one election, or knowingly hands
in two (2) or more tickets folded together, or changes any ballot after the same has been deposited in the
ballot box, or adds, or attempts to add, any ballot to those legally polled at any election, either by fraudulently
introducing the same into the ballot box before or after the ballots therein have been counted, or adds to
or mixes with, or attempts to add to or mix with, the ballots lawfully polled, other ballots, while the same are
being counted or canvassed, or at any other time, with intent to change the result of such election; or
carries away or destroys, or attempts to carry away or destroy, any poll list, or ballots, or ballot box, for the
purpose of breaking up or invalidating such election, or willfully detains, mutilates, or destroys any election
returns, or in any manner so interferes with the officers holding such election or conducting such canvass,
or with the voters lawfully exercising their rights of voting at such election, as to prevent such election or
canvass from being fairly held and lawfully conducted, is guilty of a felony.
18-2307 ATTEMPTING TO VOTE WHEN NOT QUALIFIED, OR TO REPEAT VOTING.
Every person not entitled to vote, who fraudulently attempts to vote, or who, after being entitled to vote,
attempts to vote more than once at any election, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
18-2313. RIOTOUS CONDUCT AND INTERFERENCE WITH ELECTION. Any person who willfully
disturbs, or is guilty of any riotous conduct at or near, any election place or voting precinct, with intent to
disturb the same, or interferes with the access of the electors to the polling place, or in any manner, with
the free exercise of the election franchise of the voters, or any voter there assembled, or disturbs or
interferes with the canvassing of the votes, or with the making of the returns, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
18-2314. BETTING ON ELECTIONS. Every person who makes, offers, or accepts any bet or wager
upon the result of any election, or upon the success or failure of any person or candidate, or upon the
number of votes to be cast, either in the aggregate or for any particular candidate, or upon the vote to be
cast by any person, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
18-2315. ELECTION OFFENSES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR. Every person who willfully
violates any of the provisions of the laws of this state relating to elections is, unless a different punishment
for such violation is prescribed by law, punishable by fine not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment in the
state prison not exceeding five (5) years, or by both.
18-2316. TAMPERING WITH CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION OR BALLOTS.
No person shall falsely make, or make oath to, or fraudulently deface, or fraudulently destroy, any certificate
of nomination, or any part thereof, or file, or receive for filing, any certificate of nomination, or letter of
withdrawal, knowing the same or any part thereof to be falsely made, or suppress any certificate of
nomination which has been duly filed, or any part thereof, or willfully delay the delivery of any ballots, or forge
or falsely make the official endorsement on the ballot, or willfully destroy any ballot. Every person violating
any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof in any
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less
than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years.
18-2318. ELECTIONEERING AT POLLS.
(1) On the day of any primary, general or special election, no person may, within a polling place, or any
building in which an election is being held, or within one hundred (100) feet thereof:
(a) Do any electioneering;
(b) Circulate cards or handbills of any kind;
(c) Solicit signatures to any kind of petition; or
(d) Engage in any practice which interferes with the freedom of voters
to exercise their franchise or disrupts the administration of the polling place.
(2) No person may obstruct the doors or entries to a building in which a polling place is located or prevent
free access to and from any polling place.
(3) Any election officer, sheriff, constable or other peace officer is hereby authorized, and it is hereby
made the duty of such officer to arrest any person violating the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this
section, and such offender shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
nor exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).
18-2319. ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE VOTES. No person shall attempt to influence the vote of any elector
by means of a promise or a favor, or by means of violence or threats of violence, or threats of withdrawing
custom or dealing in business or trade, or enforcing the payment of a debt, or discharging from employment,
or bringing a suit or criminal prosecution, or any other threat of injury to be inflicted by him, or by any other
means.
18-2320. BRIBERY OF ELECTORS. No person shall in any way offer a bribe to an elector to influence his vote.
18-2323. PLACING PLACARDS IN BOOTHS. Any person or officer of election who shall put, or permit
to be put, into a voting booth, any placard, notice or device, except the sample ballots and cards of
instruction as by law provided, intended or likely to call the attention of the voter to any candidate, or to
urge the voter to vote for any particular candidate, or shall put, or allow anything to be put, into such booths
for the use or comfort of the voter whereby the claims of any candidate are urged upon the voter, either
directly or indirectly, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed three (3) months, or fined not to
exceed $500.00, or both.
18-7029. PLACING POSTERS OR PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE
PROPERTY WITHOUT PERMISSION. It shall be unlawful for any person to erect, install, attach or paint,
or cause to be erected, installed, attached or painted, election posters or signs upon public or private
property, real or personal, in the state of Idaho, without permission from the owner or occupant of such
property, and it shall be unlawful for any person to place or leave any literature or other political,
promotional or sales materials upon public or private property, real or personal, in the state of Idaho when
the owner or occupant of such property, by a sign conspicuously posted on the property, or by other
written or audio communication to such person, has forbidden the placing or leaving of literature or other
political, promotional or sales material upon that property. Provided, however, that the granting of such
permission by any public utility company on behalf of any candidate for public office shall constitute the
granting of like permission by such public utility company to all other candidates for the same public office.
Any violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
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