12.13(3)(c)
(c) Wilfully or negligently fail to deliver, after having undertaken to do so, official ballots prepared for an election to the proper person, or prevent their delivery within the required time, or destroy or conceal the ballots.
12.13(3)(d)
(d) Remove or destroy any of the supplies or conveniences placed in compartments or polling booths.
12.13(3)(e)
(e) Prepare or cause to be prepared an official ballot with intent to change the result of the election as to any candidate or referendum; prepare an official ballot which is premarked or prepunched or which has an unauthorized sticker affixed prior to delivery to an elector; or deliver to an elector an official ballot bearing a mark or punch opposite the name of a candidate or referendum question that might be counted as a vote for or against a candidate or question.
12.13(3)(f)
(f) Before or during any election, tamper with voting machines, voting devices or automatic tabulating equipment readied for voting or the counting of votes; disarrange, deface, injure or impair any such machine, device or equipment; or mutilate, injure or destroy a ballot placed or displayed on a voting machine or device, or to be placed or displayed on any such machine, device or automatic tabulating equipment or any other appliance used in connection with the machine, device or equipment.
12.13(3)(g)
(g) Falsify any statement relating to voter registration under
chs. 5 to
12.
12.13(3)(h)
(h) Deface, destroy or remove any legally placed election campaign advertising poster with intent to disrupt the campaign advertising efforts of any candidate, or of any committee, group or individual under
ch. 11, or alter the information printed thereon so as to change the meaning thereof to the disadvantage of the candidate or cause espoused. Nothing in this paragraph restricts the right of any owner or occupant of any real property, or the owner or operator of any motor vehicle, to remove campaign advertising posters from such property or vehicle.
12.13(3)(i)
(i) Falsely make any statement for the purpose of obtaining or voting an absentee ballot under
ss. 6.85 to
6.87.
12.13(3)(j)
(j) When called upon to assist an elector who cannot read or write, has difficulty in reading, writing or understanding English, or is unable to mark or punch a ballot or depress a lever or button on a voting machine, inform the elector that a ballot contains names or words different than are printed or displayed on the ballot with the intent of inducing the elector to vote contrary to his or her inclination, intentionally fail to cast a vote in accordance with the elector's instructions or reveal the elector's vote to any 3rd person.
12.13(3)(k)
(k) Forge or falsely make the official indorsement on a ballot or knowingly deposit a ballot in the ballot box upon which the names or initials of the ballot clerks, or those of issuing clerks do not appear.
12.13(3)(L)
(L) When not authorized, during or after an election, break open or violate the seals or locks on a ballot box containing ballots of that election or obtain unlawful possession of a ballot box with official ballots; conceal, withhold or destroy ballots or ballot boxes; wilfully, fraudulently or forcibly add to or diminish the number of ballots legally deposited in a ballot box; or aid or abet any person in doing any of the acts prohibited by this paragraph.
12.13(3)(m)
(m) Fraudulently change a ballot of an elector so the elector is prevented from voting for whom the elector intended.
12.13(3)(n)
(n) Receive a ballot from or give a ballot to a person other than the election official in charge.
12.13(3)(o)
(o) Vote or offer to vote a ballot except as has been received from one of the inspectors.
12.13(3)(p)
(p) Receive a completed ballot from a voter unless qualified to do so.
12.13(3)(q)
(q) Solicit a person to show how his or her vote is cast.
12.13(3)(r)
(r) Remove a ballot from a polling place before the polls are closed.
12.13(3)(s)
(s) Solicit another elector to offer assistance under
s. 6.82 (2) or
6.87 (5), except in the case of an elector who is blind or visually impaired to the extent that the elector cannot read a ballot.
12.13(3)(t)
(t) Obtain an absentee ballot as the agent of another elector under
s. 6.86 (3) and fail or refuse to deliver it to such elector.
12.13(3)(u)
(u) Present false identification for the purpose of inducing an election official to permit the person to vote.
12.13(3)(v)
(v) Corroborate any information offered by a proposed elector for the purpose of permitting the person to register to vote or to vote, knowing such information to be false.
12.13(3)(x)
(x) Refuse to obey a lawful order of an inspector made for the purpose of enforcing the election laws; engage in disorderly behavior at or near a polling place; or interrupt or disturb the voting or canvassing proceedings.
12.13(3)(y)
(y) After an election, break the locks or seals or reset the counters on a voting machine except in the course of official duties carried out at the time and in the manner prescribed by law; or disable a voting machine so as to prevent an accurate count of the votes from being obtained; or open the registering or recording compartments of a machine with intent to do any such act.
12.13(3)(z)
(z) Tamper with automatic tabulating equipment or any record of votes cast or computer program which is to be used in connection with such equipment to count or recount votes at any election so as to prevent or attempt to prevent an accurate count of the votes from being obtained.
12.13(4)
(4) Nursing and retirement home and community-based residential facility voting. No employe of a nursing home or qualified retirement home or qualified community-based residential facility, as defined in
s. 6.875 (1) (as), may disclose the designated time arranged for absentee voting by occupants of the home or community-based residential facility under
s. 6.875 (6) to any person other than an occupant of the home or qualified community-based residential facility or a relative of an occupant, as defined in
s. 6.875 (1), who requests to be so informed.
12.13 Annotation
See note to 9.01, citing Appeal From Recount in Election Contest, 105 W (2d) 468, 313 NW (2d) 869 (Ct. App. 1981).
12.60(1)(a)(a) Whoever violates
s. 12.09,
12.11 or
12.13 (1),
(2) or
(3) (a),
(e),
(f),
(j),
(k),
(L),
(m),
(y) or
(z) may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than 3 years in the Wisconsin state prisons or both.
12.60(2)(a)(a) If a successful candidate for public office, other than a candidate for the legislature or a candidate for national office, is adjudged guilty in a criminal action of any violation of this chapter under
sub. (1) (a) committed during his or her candidacy, the court shall after entering judgment enter a supplemental judgment declaring a forfeiture of the candidate's right to office. The supplemental judgment shall be transmitted to the officer or agency authorized to issue the certificate of nomination or election to the office for which the person convicted is a candidate. If the candidate's term has begun, the office shall become vacant. The office shall then be filled in the manner provided by law.
12.60(2)(b)
(b) If a successful candidate for the legislature or U.S. congress is adjudged guilty in a criminal action of any violation of this chapter under
sub. (1) (a) committed during his or her candidacy, the court shall after entering judgment certify its findings to the presiding officer of the legislative body to which the candidate was elected.
12.60(3)
(3) Any election official who is convicted of any violation of this chapter shall, in addition to the punishment otherwise provided, be disqualified to act as an election official for a term of 5 years from the time of conviction.
12.60(4)
(4) Prosecutions under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with
s. 11.61 (2).
