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Article 139
 

Liability for violations of provisions of this Code

Liability cases, as established by the law, are below:

1) Registration in the voter lists in more than one precinct, voting more than once, voting for another person;

2) Violation by the community leader of the procedures and time frames of compilation of the voter lists;

3) Falsification of the official lists of support of the candidates;

4) Falsification of the voting results;

5) Concealing the ballots, ballot-stuffing;

6) Distortion of the elections results on purpose;

7) Falsification of ballots and the stamps of the electoral commissions;

8) Falsification of protocols on the election and voting results;

9) Armed entry into the precinct center (not in the time of professional activities);

10) Taking the military in a marching line or with arms

11) Hindering the normal operation of the electoral commissions on purpose;

12) Election campaigning on the day of the voting and the day prior to it;

13) Hindering the free expression of the voters’ will;

14) Applying forced methods or insulting the member of an electoral commission, observer, proxy, representative of mass media, member of their initiative group;

15) Hindering the election-related functions;

16) Stealing the ballot boxes;

17) Hindering the normal operation of electoral activities by members of the electoral commissions, civil servants, or officers of the local self-governing bodies;

18) Coercing the free expression of the voters’ will;

19) Violating the ballot secrecy;

20) Publication of the results of public polls on rating of the candidates during the seven days period prior to the day of voting;

21) Tearing off or making graffiti on the election posters posted in specially allocated for this purpose places;

22) Dissemination of false and libeling information about the candidates or parties;

23) Deception of the person, incapable of marking the ballot independently;

24) Carrying out of pre-election campaign and dissemination of any type of campaign materials by persons and organizations which don’t have the right to hold pre-election campaign;

25) Hindering the normal process of the pre-election campaign;

26) Dissemination of anonymous printed campaign materials;

27) Failure to present declaration on the expenditures of the means from the pre-election fund, by candidates and parties, according to the established procedure;

28) Not returning the stamps of the electoral commissions;

29) Not ensuring equal opportunities for the candidates by the state means of mass media;

30) Hindering proxies, observers representatives of mass media to get familiarized with the specimens of ballots, decisions of electoral commissions, not submitting the copies of decisions of Electoral Commissions, or not allowing to make excerpts from them;

31) Not filling in or not properly filling in the register of electoral commissions;

(Amend. of March 23, 1999 LA-286)