Section 21-2-566. Interference with primaries and elections generally

   Any person who:

   (1) Willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any poll officer from holding any primary or election under this chapter;

   (2) Uses or threatens violence in a manner that would prevent a reasonable poll officer or actually prevents a poll officer from the execution of his or her duties or materially interrupts or improperly and materially interferes with the execution of a poll officer's duties;

   (3) Willfully blocks or attempts to block the avenue to the door of any polling place;

   (4) Uses or threatens violence in a manner that would prevent a reasonable elector from voting or actually prevents any elector from voting;

   (5) Willfully prepares or presents to any poll officer a fraudulent voter's certificate not signed by the elector whose certificate it purports to be;

   (6) Knowingly deposits fraudulent ballots in the ballot box;

   (7) Knowingly registers fraudulent votes upon any voting machine; or

   (8) Willfully tampers with any electors list, voter's certificate, numbered list of voters, ballot box, voting machine, direct recording electronic (DRE) equipment, or tabulating machine

shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years or to pay a fine not to exceed $100,000.00, or both.

Code 1933, § 34-1924, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 206, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 61; Ga. L. 2007, p. 536, § 5/SB 40; Ga. L. 2008, p. 781, § 16/HB 1112.