(Interference with Freedom of Election by Abuse of Authority)

Where a member or employee of the election commission, public official engaged in the election affairs, person or police officer (including a judicial
police officer and military judicial police officer) related to the preparation of the electoral register (including the overseas electoral register, etc.; hereafter the same shall apply in this CHAPTER) commits or makes another person commit any one of the following acts abusing his/her authority in connection with the election, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than seven years:

<Amended by Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No. 9466, Feb. 12, 2009>

1. Where he/she interferes with or abandons his/her duties on, the perusal of the electoral register;
2. Where he/she shadows a candidate without justifiable grounds, or enter a candidate's house, election campaign office or election campaign
liaison office without consent, or does not comply with a demand to leave.