---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21144"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21144"
heading: "Other criminal penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21144"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §21144. Other criminal penalties

- (a) **Conspiracy to deprive voters of a fair election—** Any individual who knowingly and willfully gives false information in registering or voting in violation of [section 10307(c) of this title](/usc/52/10307.md?p=c), or conspires with another to violate such section, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in accordance with such section.
- (b) **False information in registering and voting—** Any individual who knowingly commits fraud or knowingly makes a false statement with respect to the naturalization, citizenry, or alien registry of such individual in violation of [section 1015 of title 18](/usc/18/1015.md) shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in accordance with such section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title IX, § 905, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1729.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15544 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.