Civil Rights Implications of Federal Voting Fraud Prosecutions: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... September 26, 1985, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 348 páginas |
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Página 161 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose...
Página 169 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Página 161 - ... other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, or Member of the House of Representatives, Delegates or Commissioners from the Territories or possessions, at any general, special, or primary election held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any such candidate.
Página 161 - ... persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both. If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the...
Página 175 - Price that when § 241 speaks of "any right or privilege secured ... by the Constitution or laws of the United States,
Página 179 - ... inequality vis-a-vis voters in irrationally favored counties. A citizen's right to a vote free of arbitrary impairment by state action has been judicially recognized as a right secured by the Constitution, when such impairment resulted from dilution by a false tally, cf.
Página 161 - Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address, or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both...
Página 176 - ... vis-a-vis voters in irrationally favored counties. A citizen's right to a vote free of arbitrary impairment by state action has been judicially recognized as a right secured by the Constitution, when such impairment resulted from dilution by a false tally, cf . United States v. Classic, 313 US 299; or by a refusal to count votes from arbitrarily selected precincts, cf.
Página 168 - The first is the oftcited rule that " 'ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity.
Página 180 - Undeniably the Constitution of the United States protects the right of all qualified citizens to vote, in state as well as in federal elections. A consistent line of decisions by this Court in cases involving attempts to deny or restrict the right of suffrage has made this indelibly clear. It has been repeatedly recognized that all qualified voters have a constitutionally protected right to vote, Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 US 651, and to have their votes counted, United States v.
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| Título | Civil Rights Implications of Federal Voting Fraud Prosecutions: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... September 26, 1985, Volumen4 Civil Rights Implications of Federal Voting Fraud Prosecutions: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... September 26, 1985, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights |
| Autor | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights |
| Editor | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca del Congreso |
| Digitalizado | 25 Ene. 2007 |
| Largo | 348 páginas |
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