What penalties are envisioned for offences related to threat driven voter coercion?

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Answer
  • Both fine and imprisonment
  • Deprivation from voting and being elected; if already elected, removal from elected office
Source

Criminal Code (inforce since 2011)

102 Undue Influence

Anyperson who:

(1)Uses or threatens to use any force or restraint, or does or

threatensto do any temporal or spiritual injury, or causes

orthreatens to cause any detriment of any kind, to an

electorin order to induce him to vote or refrain from voting

atan election, or on account of his having voted or

refrainedfrom voting at an election; or

(2)By force or fraud prevents or obstructs the free exercise of

thefranchise by an elector, or by any such means compels or induces an elector tovote or refrain from voting at an election; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and isliable to imprisonment with hard labour for one year, or to a fine of twohundred pounds.

104 Further Penalty for Corrupt Practices

Anyperson convicted of any of the offences defined in the five

lastpreceding sections committed with respect to a

parliamentaryelection becomes incapable, for three years from

thedate of the conviction, of being registered as an elector or of

votingat any parliamentary election or of holding any judicial

office;and, if he holds any such office, the office is vacated.

Healso becomes incapable for the like period of being

appointedto or of sitting in the Legislative Council, and of being

electedto or of sitting in the Legislative Assembly; and, if at the

timeof the conviction he is a member of either House, his seat

is vacated.

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