What penalties are envisioned for offences related to electoral fraud?
Bahamas
PARTIX Various Offences.
101.Any person who at an election-
(a) interferes with a voter whenmarking his vote or otherwise misconducts himself in a polling place;
(b)obtains or attempts toobtain in a polling place information as to the candidate for whom anyvoter is about to vote or has voted;
(c)communicates at any timeto any person any information obtained in a polling place as to thecandidate for whom any voter is about to vote or has voted;
(d)during the hours when a poll is being conducted prints, broadcasts or publishesany statement, matter or material purporting to contain information as to howor for whom persons have voted;
(e)directly or indirectlyinduces any voter to display his ballot paper after he has marked the same,so as to make known the name of any candidate for whom he has voted;
(f)forges or fraudulentlydefaces or destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to the returningofficer any nomination paper, knowing the same to be forged;
(g)forges or counterfeits orfraudulently defaces or destroys any ballot paper, or the signature onany ballot paper;
(h)without authority supplies any ballot paper to any person;
(i)fraudulently puts into anyballot box any paper other than the ballot paper which he is authorizedby law to put in;
(j)fraudulently takes out ofthe polling place any ballot paper; or
(k)without due authority takes, destroys, opens or otherwise interferes with anyballot box or ballot paper then in use for the purpose of an election, shall beguilty of an offence against this Act.
95.(1) Any person who-
(a) votes at an election in anypolling division in any constituency knowing that he is not entitled or hasceased to be entitled to vote in that division
(b) votes at an election more thanonce;
(c) votes at an election as some otherperson (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);or
(d) at an election allows himself to benominated as a candidate, knowing that he is not duly qualified therefor inaccordance with the provisions of this Act. shall be guilty of an offenceagainst this Act.
(2)For the purposes of this section a person who has applied for a ballot paperfor the purpose of voting in person shall be deemed to have voted.
Uponconviction-guilty of an offence against this Act.