New York Laws
Title 1 - Violations of the Elective Franchise
17-150 - Duress and Intimidation of Voters.

§ 17-150. Duress and intimidation of voters. Any person or corporation
who directly or indirectly:

1. Uses or threatens to use any force, violence or restraint, or
inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in
any other manner practices intimidation upon or against any person in
order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting for
or against any particular person or for or against any proposition
submitted to voters at such election, or to place or cause to be placed
or refrain from placing or causing to be placed his name upon a registry
of voters, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from
voting at such election, or having voted or refrained from voting for or
against any particular person or persons, or for or against any
proposition submitted to voters at such election, or having registered
or refrained from registering as a voter; or,

2. By abduction, duress or any forcible or fraudulent device or
contrivance whatever impedes, prevents or otherwise interferes with the
free exercise of the elective franchise by any voter, or compels,
induces or prevails upon any voter to give or refrain from giving his
vote for or against any particular person at any election; or,

3. Being an employer pays his employess the salary or wages due in
"pay envelopes," in which there is enclosed or upon which there is
written or printed political motto, device or argument containing
threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the
political opinions or actions of such employees, or within ninety days
of a general election puts or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or
place where his employees are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard
containing any threat, notice or information, that if any particular
ticket or candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place or
establishment will cease, in whole or in part, his establishment will be
closed up, or the wages of his employees reduced, or other threats,
express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political
opinions or actions of his employees, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
if a corporation, shall in addition forfeit its charter.

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