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Article 109
 

(Prohibition of Election Campaign by Letters, Telegrams, etc.)


(1) No one shall carry out any election campaign to electors using letters, telegrams, or facsimiles, or other means of telecommunication, adopting methods which are not prescribed in this Act, during the election period.


<Amended by Act No. 5262, Jan. 13, 1997; Act No. 5412, Nov. 14, 1997; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No 9974, Jan 25,
2010>


(2) No election campaign by telephone under Article 60-3 (1) 6 or 82-4 (1) shall be carried out in the night (referring to the hours between 11 p.m.
and 6 a.m. on the following day).


<Amended by Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010; Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012>


(3) No one shall threaten a candidate, election campaign manager, chief of an election campaign liaison office, election campaign worker, accountant in
charge, campaign speechmaker, interviewer, debater, or elector, etc. through a telephone or other means, for an election campaign.