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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "52 U.S.C. § 20702"
+description: "Theft, destruction, concealment, mutilation, or alteration of records or papers; penalties"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 52
+title_name: "VOTING AND ELECTIONS"
+chapter_number: "207"
+chapter_name: "FEDERAL ELECTION RECORDS"
+section: "20702"
+citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20702"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc52@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t52/s20702"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code", "elections"]
+---
+
+# 52 U.S.C. § 20702 - Theft, destruction, concealment, mutilation, or alteration of records or papers; penalties
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+## Text
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+Any person, whether or not an officer of election or custodian, who willfully steals, destroys, conceals, mutilates, or alters any record or paper required by section 20701 of this title to be retained and preserved shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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+(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 302, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1974a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.