Connecticut General Statutes/Title 9/Chapter 151/Section 9-364

CGS § 9-364. Influencing elector to refrain from voting.

Any person who, with intent to disenfranchise any elector, influences or attempts to influence by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means any elector to stay away from any election or otherwise refrain from voting, whether such voting is by mail, by deposit in a secure drop box or in person at a polling place or designated early voting or same-day election registration location, shall be guilty of a class D felony.

Short History

(1949 Rev., S. 1123; 1953, S. 841d; P.A. 12-193, S. 2; P.A. 24-148, S. 6.)

Long History

History: P.A. 12-193 added provision re intent to disenfranchise an elector, inserted “by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means” and changed penalty from a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment of not more than 1 year or less than 3 months to a class D felony, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 24-148 added “or otherwise refrain from voting, whether such voting is by mail, by deposit in a secure drop box or in person at a polling place or designated early voting or same-day election registration location,”, effective July 1, 2024.

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