An Act to prohibit the dissemination of incorrect or misleading ballot information and to provide a penalty therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That a NEW SECTION be added to chapter 12-13:

Any person who knowingly prints, publishes, or delivers to any voter of this state a document containing a facsimile of an official sample ballot or a portion thereof purporting to be an official sample ballot as part of campaign material requiring disclosure or statement pursuant to chapter 12-27, in which the ballot or portion thereof is misstated, erroneously printed, or by which false or misleading information about the ballot is given to the voters, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.