§ 1847Prohibiting Duress and Intimidation of Voters and Interference with the Free Exercise of the Elective Franchise

Any person or corporation who, directly or
indirectly--(a) 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 or coercion upon or against any person, in order
to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting
at any election, or to vote or refrain from voting for or
against any particular person, or for or against any question
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 register 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 question
submitted to voters at such election, or having registered or
refrained from registering as a voter; or (b) by abduction,
duress or coercion, 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 (c) being an employer,
pays his employes the salary or wages due in "pay envelopes"
upon which or in which there is written or printed any political
motto, device, statement or argument containing threats, express
or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political
opinions or actions of such employes, or within ninety days of
any election or primary puts or otherwise exhibits in the
establishment or place where his employes 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 be closed up, or
the wages of his employes reduced, or other threats, express
or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political
opinions or actions of his employes, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor of the second degree. Any person or corporation,
convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this
section, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five
thousand ($5,000) dollars, or such person or the officers,
directors or agents of such corporation responsible for the
violation of this section, shall be sentenced to undergo an
imprisonment of not more than two (2) years, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
   (1847 amended Feb. 13, 1998, P.L.72, No.18)