§19-4  Penalties; disqualification for,removal from office; reports of convictions to chief election officer. Every person found guilty of an election fraud shall be fined not less than$1,000 nor more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Besides the punishment, the person shall be disqualified from voting and frombeing elected to, holding or occupying any office, elective or appointive.  Ifthe person so convicted holds any office, either elective or appointive, at thetime of the conviction, the office shall at once and without mention in thesentence or other proceeding be vacated by the conviction.  The judge beforewhom the conviction is had shall immediately transmit to the chief electionofficer and to the respective county clerks the name of the person, the offenseof which the person has been convicted and the sentence of the court. [L 1970,c 26, pt of §2; am L 1970, c 188, §39; gen ch 1985; am L 2007, c 55, §1]

 

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  Classification of offense and authorized punishment, see§§701-107, 706-610(2), 640, 660.