Offence by abuse of office or false statement

1. Publish officers who in the discharge of their duties or position commit one of the following misrepresentations shall be punished with three years to seven years imprisonment and coercive fines between eighteen months to twenty-four months:

a) Altering without authorization dates, hours and place at which any electoral proceedings, including those of a preparatory nature, are to be held or announcing the holding thereof in a way that can be misleading to electors the exercise of his franchise;

b) Omitting or stating the names of voters in any election proceedings in a way that may be conducive to mistake about the authenticity of the names;

c) Altering, hiding or changing in any way the election envelope or the ballot papers handed in by voters in the exercise of their franchise;

d) Inaccurately carrying out the count of electors when preparing or rectifying the Register or during the polling or counting operations;

e) Unduly proclaiming any persons;

f) Not telling the truth in oral statements to be mandatorily made at election proceedings under this ActM;

g) Allowing, though being able to avoid it, someone to vote more than twice or to vote without being legally able to vote, or failing to make the due protest;

h) Printing, making or using ballot papers or election envelopes in contravention of the rule in force;

i) Failing to their duty relating to certifications on subsidies for election expenses contemplated in this Act or 

j) Committing any similar type of fraud connected with elections, by one of the means set out in Section 302 of the Criminal Code.

 SECT. 140 AS AMENDED BY SECT. 39 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28
 1.I) ADDED BY SECT. 5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/2003, OF MARCH 10
 1.J) RENUMBERED BY SECT. 5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/2003. FORMER 1.I)