A. 
A person commits the offense of campaign misconduct in the third degree if:
1. 
During the hours the election is open and after election officials have posted warning notices at the required distance in the form and manner prescribed by this Title, the person is in the polling location or within 200 feet of an entrance to a polling location or vote center, and:
a. 
Attempts to persuade a person to vote for or against a candidate, measure, or proposition;
b. 
Circulates cards, handbills, or marked ballots, or posts political signs or posters relating to a candidate, measure, or proposition; or
c. 
Conducts other political activities that may pertain to any future election or potential ballot proposition.
2. 
During the hours the election is open the person is within 50 feet of a ballot drop box and engages in any of the activities described in subsections A.1.a through A.1.c.
B. 
For the purposes of this section, the entrance to a polling location or vote center that is in a school is the entrance to the school building. The election official or precinct chair responsible shall post warning notices in the form and manner prescribed by the municipal clerk.
C. 
Campaign misconduct in the third degree is subject to enforcement and a fine under Title 14.
(AO No. 2013-130(S-1), § 13, 1-14-2014; AO No. 2017-29(S), § 58, 6-1-2017; AO No. 2020-131(S), § 15, 1-14-2021)
A. 
A person commits the crime of unlawful interference with voting in the second degree if the person:
1. 
Has an official ballot issued from a polling location or vote center in possession outside of the polling location or vote center unless the person is an election official or other person authorized by law;
2. 
Makes, or knowingly has in possession, a counterfeit of an official election ballot;
3. 
Knowingly solicits or encourages, directly or indirectly, a registered voter who is no longer qualified to vote under section 28.30.010, to vote in an election;
4. 
As a registration official:
a. 
Knowingly refuses to register a person who is entitled to register; or
b. 
Accepts a fee from an applicant applying for registration;
5. 
Knowingly submits or encourages or assists another person to submit an absentee ballot application to an intermediary who could control or delay the submission of the application to the municipality or who could gather data from the application form as prohibited by law;
6. 
Violates the oath of confidentiality in section 28.50.130;
7. 
Obstructs the doors or entries to a building in which a vote center or ballot drop box is located, or prevents free access to and from any vote center or ballot drop box;
8. 
Removes an official ballot from a ballot drop box without lawful authority;
9. 
Moves, tampers with, or damages a ballot box or ballot drop box, or inserts into a ballot box or ballot drop box anything other than an official ballot return envelope, without lawful authority;
10. 
Uses, threatens to use, or causes to be used force, coercion, violence, or restraint, or inflicts, threatens to inflict, or causes to be inflicted damage, harm, or loss, upon or against another person to induce or compel that person to vote or refrain from voting in an election;
11. 
Knowingly pays, offers to pay, or causes to be paid money or other valuable thing to a person to vote or refrain from voting in an election; or
12. 
Solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept money or other valuable thing with the intent to vote for or refrain from voting for a candidate at an election or for an election proposition or question.
B. 
Unlawful interference with voting in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
C. 
For purposes of subsections A.11 and A.12 of this section, "other valuable thing"
1. 
Includes:
a. 
An entry in a game of chance in which a prize of money or other present or future pecuniary gain or advantage may be awarded to a participant wherein the total of the prizes offered is greater than $2.00 per participant with a maximum of $100.00; and
b. 
Government employment or benefits.
2. 
Does not include:
a. 
Materials having a nominal value bearing the name, likeness, or other identification of a candidate, political party, political group, party district committee, or organization, or stating a position on a ballot proposition or question;
b. 
Food and refreshments provided incidental to an activity that is nonpartisan in nature and directed at encouraging persons to vote, or incidental to a gathering in support of or in opposition to a candidate, political party, political group, party district committee, organization, or ballot question or proposition;
c. 
Care of the voter's dependents provided in connection with the absence of a voter from home for the purpose of voting;
d. 
Services provided by a person acting as a representative under section 28.60.040;
e. 
Services provided by an election official as defined in sections 28.10.040 and 28.50.010; and
f. 
Transportation of a voter to or from a polling location or vote center without charge.
(AO No. 2013-130(S-1), § 13, 1-14-2014; AO No. 2017-29(S), § 59, 6-1-2017; AO No. 2020-131(S), § 15, 1-14-2021; AO No. 2024-109(S), § 8, 12-3-2024)
A. 
A person commits the crime of unlawful interference with an election if the person:
1. 
Induces or attempts to induce an election official to fail in the official's duty by force, threat, intimidation, or offers of reward;
2. 
Intentionally changes, attempts to change, or causes to be changed an official election document including ballots, tallies, and returns;
3. 
Intentionally delays, attempts to delay, or causes to be delayed the certification of election under section 28.85.040; or
4. 
Is contracted or employed by the municipality to print or reproduce in any manner an official ballot, and the person knowingly:
a. 
Personally appropriates, or gives or delivers to, or permits to be taken by anyone other than a person authorized by the municipal clerk, official ballots; or
b. 
Prints or reproduces or has printed or reproduced official ballots in a form or with a content other than that prescribed by law or as directed by the municipal clerk, or person authorized by the municipal clerk.
B. 
Unlawful interference with voting in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
(AO No. 2024-109(S), § 9, 12-3-2024)
A. 
A person commits the crime of voter misconduct in the second degree if the person:
1. 
Registers to vote without being entitled to register under section 28.30.010;
2. 
Votes or attempts to vote in an election after being disqualified under AS 15.05.030 ;
3. 
Votes or attempts to vote more than once in the same election with the intent that the person's vote be counted more than once;
4. 
Votes or attempts to vote in the name of another person or in a name other than the person's own; or
5. 
Intentionally makes a false affidavit, swears falsely, or falsely affirms under an oath required by this title.
B. 
Voter misconduct in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
(AO No. 2013-130(S-1), § 13, 1-14-2014; AO No. 2020-131(S), § 15, 1-14-2021)
A. 
A person commits the crime of election official misconduct in the second degree if while an election official, and between the date that ballots are provided to voters and the certification of the election, the person:
1. 
Opens a ballot received from a voter at an election, unless permitted by code or regulation;
2. 
Marks a ballot by folding or otherwise so as to be able to recognize it;
3. 
Otherwise attempts to learn how a voter marked a ballot;
4. 
Allows a person to do one of the acts prescribed by subsections A.1, A.2, or A.3; or
5. 
Violates the oath of confidentiality in section 28.50.130.
B. 
Election official misconduct in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
(AO No. 2013-130(S-1), § 13, 1-14-2014; AO No. 2020-131(S), § 7, 1-14-2021)
A. 
A person commits the crime of improper subscription to petition if the person:
1. 
Signs a name other than the person's own to a petition proposing an initiative, referendum, recall, or nomination of a candidate for municipal office;
2. 
Knowingly signs more than once for the same proposition, question, or candidate at one election;
3. 
Signs a petition proposing an initiative, referendum, recall, or nomination of a candidate for municipal office, while knowingly not being a qualified voter; or
4. 
Solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept money or other valuable thing in exchange for signing or refraining from signing a petition proposing an initiative, referendum, or recall; in this paragraph, "other valuable thing" has the meaning given in AS 15.56.030(d).
B. 
Improper subscription to petition is a class B misdemeanor.
(AO No. 2013-130(S-1), § 13, 1-14-2014; AO No. 2020-131(S), § 15, 1-14-2021)
A. 
An employer commits the offense of refusal to allow employees time off if the employer refuses to allow an employee time off for the purpose of voting, or if, after allowing the time off, the employer deducts the time from the wages of the employee, except as provided in subsection B of this section.
B. 
An employee who has two consecutive hours in which to vote, either between the opening of the polls or vote centers and the beginning of the employee's regular working shift, or between the end of that regular working shift and the close of the polls or vote centers, is considered to have sufficient time outside of working hours within which to vote.
C. 
Refusal to allow employees time off to vote is a violation.
(AO No. 2013-130(S-1), § 13, 1-14-2014; AO No. 2020-131(S), § 15, 1-14-2021)
A. 
A person who is retained or employed by the municipality to procure the printing of any official ballot or who is engaged in printing official ballots commits the crime of unlawful appropriation, printing or distribution if the person knowingly:
1. 
Appropriates any official ballot to himself or herself; or
2. 
Gives or delivers any official ballot to or permits any official ballot to be taken by any person other than the municipal election official authorized by law to receive it; or
3. 
Prints or causes to be printed any official ballot:
a. 
In any other form than that prescribed by law or as directed by the municipality; or
b. 
With any other names thereon or with the names spelled otherwise than as directed by the municipality, or the names or printing thereon arranged in any other way than that authorized and directed by law.
(AO No. 2017-29(S), § 60, 6-1-2017)