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10 ILCS 5/29-18

(10 ILCS 5/29-18) (from Ch. 46, par. 29-18)

Sec. 29-18.

Conspiracy to prevent vote - Liability).

If 2 or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, threat,
deception, forgery or bribery any person from registering to vote, or
preventing any person lawfully entitled to vote from voting, or preventing
any person from supporting or opposing, in a legal manner, the nomination
or election of any person for public or political party office, or a
proposition voted upon at any election, or to injure any person or such
person's property on account of such vote, support or advocacy, and if one
or more persons so conspiring do, attempt or cause to be done, any act in
furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in
his person or property or deprived of having or exercising any right,
privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution or laws of the United
States or the State of Illinois relating to the conduct of elections,
voting, or the nomination or election of candidates for public or political
party office, all persons engaged in such conspiracy shall be liable to the
party injured or any person affected, in any action or
proceeding for redress.

(Source: P.A. 79-1363.)