What penalties are envisioned for offences related to electoral fraud?

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Answer
  • Imprisonment
  • Deprivation from voting and being elected; if already elected, removal from elected office
Source

CriminalCode (in force since 2011)

99 Personation

Anyperson who votes or attempts to vote in the name of

anotherperson at an election, whether the name is that of a

personliving or dead or of a fictitious person, is guilty of a crime, and is liableto imprisonment with hard labour for two years.

100 Double Voting

Anyperson who, being an elector, votes or attempts to vote at

anelection oftener than he is entitled to vote at the election is

guiltyof a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two years.

104 Further Penalty for Corrupt Practices

Anyperson convicted of any of the offences defined in the five

lastpreceding sections committed with respect to a

parliamentaryelection becomes incapable, for three years from

thedate of the conviction, of being registered as an elector or of

votingat any parliamentary election or of holding any judicial

office;and, if he holds any such office, the office is vacated.

Healso becomes incapable for the like period of being

appointedto or of sitting in the Legislative Council, and of being

electedto or of sitting in the Legislative Assembly; and, if at the

timeof the conviction he is a member of either House, his seat

is vacated.

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