Title 52 of the U.S. Code § 10102 - Interference with freedom of elections

Full text of § 10102 from Title 52 of the United States Code.

§ 10102. Interference with freedom of elections

No officer of the Army, Navy, or Air Force of the United States shall prescribe or fix, or attempt to prescribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State, or in any manner interfere with the freedom of any election in any State, or with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any State.

(R.S. §2003.)

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1972 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section, and to section 32 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.

R.S. §2003 derived from act Feb. 25, 1865, ch. 52, §1, 13 Stat. 437.

Air Force inserted to conform to act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, §207(a), (f), 61 Stat. 502, which established a separate Department of the Air Force, and Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 40 [App. A(10)], July 22, 1949, which transferred certain functions to the Air Force. Section 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §53, 70A Stat. 641. Act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 1, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces", which in sections 8010 to 8013 continued Department of the Air Force under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Air Force.

CHAPTER 103—ENFORCEMENT OF VOTING RIGHTS

Sec.

10301.

Denial or abridgement of right to vote on account of race or color through voting qualifications or prerequisites; establishment of violation.

10302.

Proceeding to enforce the right to vote.

10303.

Suspension of the use of tests or devices in determining eligibility to vote.

10304.

Alteration of voting qualifications; procedure and appeal; purpose or effect of diminishing the ability of citizens to elect their preferred candidates.

10305.

Use of observers.

10306.

Poll taxes.

10307.

Prohibited acts.

10308.

Civil and criminal sanctions.

10309.

Termination of assignment of observers.

10310.

Enforcement proceedings.

10311.

Impairment of voting rights of persons holding current registration.

10312.

Authorization of appropriations.

10313.

Separability.

10314.

Construction.

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