What penalties are envisioned for offences related to electoral fraud?
Nauru
- Imprisonment
- Deprivation from voting and being elected; if already elected, removal from elected office
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.