What penalties are envisioned for offences related to obstructing the electoral process?

Summary of Any Action of theLaw Violation and Penalty

in accordance with

the Organic Act on theElection Commission B.E. 2550

Wrongdoings liable to thecriminal penalty

1.) Any person, who obstructsthe performance of duties of the Election Commission, the Provincial ElectionCommittee, a member of the Provincial Election Committee, the Director of theProvincial Election, a sub-committee or a member of a sub-committee inaccordance with this Organic Act, shall be liable to the penalty ofimprisonment of not exceeding one year or to a fine of not exceeding twentythousand Baht, or both (section 43 paragraph one).

If such obstruction is committed by doing an act ofviolence or by threatening to do an act of violence, the offender shall beliable to imprisonment of not exceeding two years or to a fine of not exceedingforty thousand Baht, or both (section 43 paragraph two).

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http://www.ect.go.th/english/files/summary.pdf

liable toimprisonment for a term of not exceeding six months or to a fine of notexceeding ten thousand Baht, or to both

liable toimprisonment for a term of one to five years or to a fine of twenty thousand toone hundred thousand Baht, or to both, and the court shall order thedisfranchisement for a period of five years

If the act was donewith a malicious intent to cause such candidate to be disfranchised or toprevent the announcement of the result of an election, he or she shall beliable to imprisonment for a term of five to ten years and to a fine of onehundred thousand to two hundred thousand Baht, and the court shall orderdisfranchisement for a period of ten years