What penalties are envisioned for offences related to threat driven voter coercion?
Bahamas
Answer
Both fine and imprisonment
Source
98.(1) Every person who --
(a)upon any public road or in any public place within one hundred yards of anybuilding in which a polling station is situated, seeks to influence any electorto vote for any candidate or to ascertain for what candidate any electorintends to vote or has voted;
shall directly or indirectly by himself or byany other person on his behalf, make use of, or threaten to make use of anyforce, violence or restraint, or inflict or threaten the infliction byhimself or by or through any other person, or any injury, damage, harm or loss,or in any other manner practice intimidation upon or against any person inorder to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or onaccount of such person having voted or refrained from voting, at any election,or who shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance,impede, prevent or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the right tovote of any person or shall thereby compel, induce or prevail upon any person,either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall bedeemed to be guilty of offence against this Act.Comment
Imprisonmentfor a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding two thousanddollars or to both such imprisonment and such fine
