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

Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands

Answer
Both fine and imprisonment
Source

96. Definition of treating

The following persons shall be deemed guilty of treating underthis Law-

(a) every person who corruptly, by himself or by any other person,

gives, or provides or pays, wholly or in part, the expenses ofgiving or providing any food, drink, entertainment or provision to or for anypersons for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person, or any otherperson, to vote or to refrain from voting at such election, or on account ofsuch person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting at suchelection; and

(b)every elector who corruptly accepts or takes any such food, drink,entertainment or provision.

95.Definition of bribery

104.Secrecy of voting

(1) Every election officer and every agent appointed under section40(1)(a) or (b), or section 64(1) in attendance at a polling station shallmaintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting in such station, andno person shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with an elector whenmarking his vote,

or otherwise attempt to obtain in the polling station anyinformation as to the candidate for whom any elector in such station is aboutto vote or has voted.

(2) Every election officer and every such agent in attendance atthe counting of the votes shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy ofthe voting and shall not attempt to communicate any information obtained atsuch counting as to the candidate for whom any vote is given in any particularballot paper.

(3) No person shall, directly, or indirectly, induce any electorto display his ballot paper after he has marked it so as to make known to anyperson the name of the candidate for whom or against whose name he has markedhis vote.

(4) Whoever contravenes this section is guilty of an offence andliable, on summary conviction before a magistrate, to a fine of five hundreddollars or to imprisonment for six months.

 

Cayman Islands Elections Office,

http://www.electionsoffice.ky/downloads/electionslaw2009.pdf as retrieved on2013-12-10.

 

Comment
See the law for details on the penalties.
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