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

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Answer
Both fine and imprisonment
Source

Undue influence

75. Every person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any otherperson on his behalf, makes use of or threatens to make use of any force,violence, or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict, by himself or byany other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm, or loss uponor against any person, in order to induce or compel that person to vote orrefrain from voting or on account of that person having voted or refrained fromvoting at any election, or who by abduction, duress or any fraudulentcontrivance, impedes or prevents the free exercise of the franchise of anyvoter, or thereby compels, induces or prevails upon any voter to give orrefrain from giving his vote at any election, is guilty of undue influencewithin the meaning of this Act.

Penalty for bribery, treating or undue influence

77. Every person who isguilty of bribery, treating or undue influence under this Act is liable onsummary conviction to imprisonmentfor 6 months or to a fine of $19,200.
Comment

Imprisonment for 6 months

Fine $19,200.

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