American Samoa § 6.1203 - Election frauds.

§ 6.1203. Election frauds.

The following persons are considered guilty of an election fraud: (1) every person who, directly or indirectly, personally or through another, gives, procures, or lends, or agrees or offers to give, procure, or lend, or who endeavors to procure, any money or office or place of employment or valuable consideration to or for any qualified elector, or to or for any person for a qualified elector, or to or for any person in order to induce any qualified elector to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or issue, or who does any such act on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting for any particular person at any election; (2) every person who advances or pays, or causes to be paid, any money to, or to the use of, any other person, with the intent that the money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election, or for any purpose connected with or incidental to any election; (3) every qualified elector who, before, during, or after any election, directly or indirectly, personally or through another, receives, agrees, or contracts for any money, gift, loan, or valuable consideration, office, place, or employment for himself or any other person for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining to vote or agreeing to refrain from voting, or for voting or refraining to vote for any particular person or issue; (4) every person who, directly or indirectly, personally or through another, makes use of, or threatens to make use of, any force, violence, or restraint; or inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, or loss in, any manner, or in any way practices intimidation upon or against any person in order to induce or compel the person to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or party; or who by abduction, distress, or any device or contrivance impedes, prevents, or otherwise interferes with the free exercise of the elective franchise; (5) every person who, at any election, votes or attempts to vote in the name of any other person, living or dead, or in some fictitious name, or who, having once voted, votes or attempts to vote again, or knowingly gives or attempts to give more than one ballot for the same office at one time of voting; (6) every person who, before or during an election, knowingly publishes a false statement of the withdrawal of any candidate at the election; (7) every person who induces or procures any person to withdraw from being a candidate at an election in consideration of any payment or gift or valuable consideration; or of any threat; and every candidate who withdraws from being a candidate in pursuance of such inducement of procurement; (8) every public officer by law required to do or perform any act or thing with reference to any of the provisions in any law concerning elections contained who willfully fails, neglects, or refuses to do or perform the same, or who willfully performs it in such a way as to hinder the objects thereof, or who is guilty of any willful violation of any of the provisions thereof; (9) any person willfully tampering or attempting to tamper with, disarrange, deface, or impair in any manner whatsoever, or destroy any voting equipment while the same is in use at any election, or who, after the equipment is locked in order to preserve the registration or record of any election made by the same, tampers or attempts to tamper with any voting equipment.