Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 29A.84 · 42 active provisions
GENERAL PROVISIONS (1) A county auditor who suspects a person of fraudulent voter registration, vote tampering, or irregularities in voting shall transmit his or her suspicions and observations without delay to the canvassing board.(2) The county auditor shall make a good faith effort to contact the person in question…
Every officer who willfully violates RCW 29A.56.110 through 29A.56.270, for the violation of which no penalty is prescribed in this title or who willfully fails to comply with the provisions of RCW 29A.56.110 through 29A.56.270 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
A person who willfully violates any provision of this title regarding the conduct of mail ballot primaries or elections is guilty of a class C felony punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.
A person who removes or defaces lawfully placed political advertising including yard signs or billboards without authorization is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable to the same extent as a misdemeanor that is punishable under RCW 9A.20.021. The defacement or removal of each item constitutes a separate violation.
(1) A person who knowingly destroys, alters, defaces, conceals, or discards a completed voter registration form, signed ballot declaration, or voted ballot is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. This section does not apply to (a) the voter who completed the form or declaration, or (b) a county auditor who acts as authorized…
(1) The attorney general may bring a civil action for such declaratory or injunctive relief as is necessary to carry out the provisions of RCW 29A.40.170 (3) and (4) in the superior court of the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.(2) A person or federally recognized tribal government may bring a…
REGISTRATION If any county auditor or registration assistant, including government agency employees providing voter registration services under the requirements of state law or the national voter registration act of 1993:(1) Willfully neglects or refuses to perform any duty required by law in connection with the regist…
An election officer or a person who intentionally disenfranchises an eligible citizen or discriminates against a person eligible to vote by denying voter registration is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.
Any person who:(1) Knowingly provides false information on an application for voter registration under any provision of this title;(2) Knowingly makes or attests to a false declaration as to his or her qualifications as a voter;(3) Knowingly causes or permits himself or herself to be registered using the name of anothe…
A person who knows that he or she does not possess the legal qualifications of a voter and who registers to vote is guilty of a class C felony. This section does not apply to persons age sixteen or seventeen signing up to register to vote as authorized under RCW 29A.08.170 or 29A.08.355(2).
(1) Any state or local election officer, or a designee, who has access to any county or statewide voter registration database who knowingly uses, discloses, or alters information in the database inconsistent with the performance of his or her duties is guilty of a class C felony, punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.(2) The…
PETITIONS AND SIGNATURES Every officer who willfully violates any of the provisions of chapter 29A.72 RCW or RCW 29A.32.010 through 29A.32.121, for the violation of which no penalty is herein prescribed, or who willfully fails to comply with the provisions of chapter 29A.72 RCW or RCW 29A.32.010 through 29A.32.121, is…
Every person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor, who:(1) For any consideration, compensation, gratuity, reward, or thing of value or promise thereof, signs or declines to sign any recall petition; or(2) Advertises in any newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication, or in any book, pamphlet, circular, or letter, o…
(1) Every person who signs an initiative or referendum petition with any other than his or her true name is guilty of a class C felony punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.(2) Every person who knowingly signs more than one petition for the same initiative or referendum measure or who signs an initiative or referendum petitio…
(1) Every person who signs a recall petition with any other than his or her true name is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.(2) Every person who knowingly (a) signs more than one petition for the same recall, (b) signs a recall petition when he or she is not a legal voter, or (c) makes…
Every person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who:(1) For any consideration or gratuity or promise thereof, signs or declines to sign any initiative or referendum petition; or(2) Provides or receives consideration for soliciting or procuring signatures on an initiative or referendum petition if any part of the consider…
The following apply to persons signing filing fee petitions prescribed by RCW 29A.24.101:(1) A person who signs a petition with any other than his or her name shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.(2) A person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if the person knowingly: Signs more than one petition for any single candidacy of…
Any person who with intent to mislead or confuse the electors conspires with another person who has a surname similar to an incumbent seeking reelection to the same office, or to an opponent for the same office whose political reputation has been well established, by persuading such other person to file for such office…
The legislature finds that paying a worker, whose task it is to secure the signatures of voters on initiative or referendum petitions, on the basis of the number of signatures the worker secures on the petitions encourages the introduction of fraud in the signature gathering process. Such a form of payment may act as a…
Every person who:(1) Knowingly provides false information on his or her declaration of candidacy or petition of nomination; or(2) Conceals or fraudulently defaces or destroys a certificate that has been filed with an elections officer under chapter 29A.20 RCW or a declaration of candidacy or petition of nomination that…
A person is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW who files a declaration of candidacy for any public office of:(1) A nonexistent or fictitious person; or(2) The name of any person not his or her true name; or(3) A name similar to that of an incumbent seeking reelection to the same office…
BALLOTS Any person who is retained or employed by any officer authorized by the laws of this state to procure the printing of any official ballot or who is engaged in printing official ballots is guilty of a gross misdemeanor if the person knowingly:(1) Appropriates any official ballot to himself or herself; or(2) Give…
(1) It is a gross misdemeanor for a person to examine, or assist another to examine, any voter record, ballot, or any other state or local government official election material if the person, without lawful authority, conducts the examination:(a) For the purpose of identifying the name of a voter and how the voter vote…
VOTING CENTER (1) During the voting period that begins eighteen days before and ends the day of a special election, general election, or primary, no person may:(a) Within a voting center or student engagement hub or in any public street or room in any public manner within 100 feet measured radially from the entrance to…
Any election officer who does any electioneering at a voting center or ballot drop location during the voting period that begins eighteen days before and ends the day of a special election, general election, or primary is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction must be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred do…