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

Uganda

Uganda

Answer
Both fine and imprisonment
Source

PART XI (ILLEGAL PRACTICES) & XII (OTHER ELECTIONOFFENCES) of the parliamentary Elections Act of 2005.

Art68-83

http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/UG/uganda-parliamentary-elections-act-2005/view

 

80.  Offence of undue influence

 

(1) Where a person—

(a) directly or indirectly in person or through any other person—

 

(i) makes use of, or threatens to make use of, any force orviolence;

(ii) inflicts or threatens to inflict in person or through anyother person any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon oragainst any person,

in order to induce or compel that person to vote or refrain fromvoting, or on account of that person having voted or refrained from voting; or

 

(b) by abduction, duress or any fraudulent device or contrivance,impedes or prevails upon a voter either to vote or to refrain from voting,

that person commits the offence of undue influence.

 

(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liableon conviction—

 

(a) in case of an offence under subsection (1)(a) or in case of anoffence under subsection (1)(b) where the offence involves abduction, to a finenot exceeding one hundred and twenty currency points or imprisonment notexceeding five years or both; or

(b) in the case of anoffence under subsection (1)(b) which does not involve abduction,  to a  fine  not exceeding  forty  eight currency  points  or imprisonment not exceeding two years orboth.  

Comment
See the law for details on the penalties
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