52 USC § 10102 - Interference with freedom of elections

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title: "52 USC § 10102 - Interference with freedom of elections"
title_number: 52
title_name: "VOTING AND ELECTIONS"
section_number: "10102"
section_name: "Interference with freedom of elections"
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# § 10102. Interference with freedom of elections

No officer of the Army, Navy, or Air Force of the United States shall prescribe or fix, or attempt to prescribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State, or in any manner interfere with the freedom of any election in any State, or with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any State.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 2003.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section, and to , Aliens and Nationality.

R.S. § 2003 derived from , .

Air Force inserted to conform to , (f), , which established a separate Department of the Air Force, and Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 40 [App. A(10)], , which transferred certain functions to the Air Force. Section 207(a), (f) of act , was repealed by , . , , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces”, which in sections 8010 to 8013 continued Department of the Air Force under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Air Force.