• 18 U.S.C. § 592 – “armed” persons stationed at the polls;
• 18 U.S.C. § 609 – coercion of voting among the
military;
• 18 U.S.C. § 610 – coercion of federal employees for
political activity;
• 18 U.S.C. § 911 – fraudulent assertion of United States
citizenship;
• 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343 – schemes involving the mails
or interstate wires to corrupt elections that are predicated
on the “salary” or “pecuniary loss” theories; and
• 18 U.S.C. § 1952 – schemes to use the mails or an
interstate facility (such as a telephone) in furtherance of
vote-buying activities in states that treat vote-buying as
bribery.
2. Statutes Applicable to Federal Elections Only
The following additional statutes apply to federal (including
“mixed”) elections, but not to purely non-federal elections: 14
• 18 U.S.C. § 594 – intimidation of voters;
• 18 U.S.C. § 597 – payments to vote, or to refrain from
voting, for a federal candidate;
• 18 U.S.C. § 608(b) – vote-buying and false registration
under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee
Voting Act;
The name of a federal candidate on the ballot is sufficient to obtain federal
jurisdiction.
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