Offences relating to the exercise of right to vote

1. Persons who commit one of the following offences shall be punished with a term of imprisonment from six months to three years and a coercive fine from twelve months to twentyfour months:

a) Directly or indirectly procuring for reward, gift, remuneration or a promise an elector’s vote or inducing him to abstain from voting;

b) Exerting pressure on voters with violence or intimidation to prevent them from voting or to compel them to vote against their will or t disclose the secrecy of voting, or 

c) Unjustifiably preventing or impeding the entrance, exit or stay of electors, candidates, election proxies, polling controllers and notaries in or from any places where election proceedings are carried out.

2. Public officers who make use of their legal powers for one of the purposes described above shall be liable to the penalties provided for in the foregoing subsection and to a special disqualification from any public office or position for a term of one year to three years.

 SECT. 146 AS AMENDED BY SECT.45 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28