Article 139

 

Liability for Violating the Provisions of this Code

 

The following shall be prosecuted in accordance with procedures defined by the law:

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

2) violating the procedures and the timeframe for compiling voter lists;

3) Revoked

4) distorting the voting results;

5) hiding the ballots, putting additional ballots in the ballot box;

6) distorting the election results intentionally;

7) forging the ballots and electoral commission stamps;

8) forging the protocols on voting and election results;

9) entering the precinct center with weapons while not carrying out official duties;

10) taking military servicemen to vote in a marching line or with weapons, or forcing them to go vote;

11) intentionally hindering the normal work of electoral commissions on the voting day;

12) campaigning on the voting day and the day before;

13) hindering the free expression of voters’ will;

14) violence or insults against electoral commission members, observers, proxies, representatives of mass media and member of initiative groups;

15) hindering election-related functions;

16) stealing the ballot box;

17) hindering the normal course of elections by electoral commission members or civil servants and employees of local self-government bodies;

18) coercing the expression of voters’ free will;

19) violating the ballot secrecy;

20) publishing sociological polling results about candidates’ ratings within seven days before the voting day;

21) tearing off or marking election posters posted in specially designated areas;

22) disseminating false and libelous information about candidates or parties;

23) deceiving a person who is unable to vote on his/her own;

24) campaigning and disseminating any campaign materials by persons and organizations, who have no right to conduct pre-election campaign;

25) hindering the normal course of pre-election campaign;

26) disseminating anonymous printed campaign materials;

27) failing to submit declarations on the use of resources in candidates’ and parties’ preelection fund in accordance with the established procedures;

28) failing to return electoral commission stamps;

29) state media’s failing to provide equal conditions for all candidates;

30) commission chairmen creating obstacles for proxies, observers and representatives of the media who want to see sample ballots and electoral commission decisions, refusing to provide them with a copy of commission decisions or not allowing them to take excerpts from the decisions;

31) failing to fill out the electoral commission’s register or filling it out improperly.