To amend title 18, United States Code, to impose certain penalties for the forging or counterfeiting of any postmarking stamp or impression thereof with respect to a mailed ballot for an election for Federal, State, or local office, and for other purposes.
This bill increases penalties for forging or counterfeiting U.S. postmark stamps, particularly when used on mailed ballots in federal, state, or local elections. Currently, forging a postmark can result in a fine and up to five years in prison, but this legislation would increase the maximum prison sentence to ten years if the forged postmark is applied to a mailed ballot. The bill also creates a new offense for someone who applies a genuine postmark bearing an incorrect date to a mailed ballot with the intent to falsify when it was sent, subjecting violators to the same ten-year penalty. The legislation targets election-related mail fraud by making it a more serious crime to tamper with postmarks on ballots specifically. No specific funding or implementation timeline is mentioned in the bill.
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