What penalties are envisioned for offences related to threat driven voter coercion?
Jamaica
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1944-11-20)
PART VIII Election Offences
Articles 70-103
Electoral Commission of Jamaica,
http://www.eoj.com.jm/legislation-187.htm as retrieved on 2013-12-04.
92 Undue influence
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, orthreatens 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 such person to vote orrefrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrainedfrom voting, at any election, or who by abduction, duress or any fraudulentcontrivance, impedes or prevents the free exercise of the franchise of anyelector, or thereby compels, induces or prevails upon, any elector either togive or refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undueinfluence within the meaning of this Act.
94 Penalty for bribery, treating or undue influence
Every person who is guilty of bribery, treating orundue influence, shall, on summary conviction before a Resident Magistrate, beliable to a fine not lessthan twenty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or toimprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not less than three yearsnor more than five years; and the Resident Magistrate may, in addition to suchfine imprisonment order that the person be disqualified from holding any postof election officer for a period not less than seven years from the date ofconviction.
Fine - not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than eightythousand dollars or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term notless than three years nor more than five years; Resident Magistrate may add tofine: imprisonment order that the person be disqualified from holding any postof election officer for a period not less than seven years from the date ofconviction.