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Article 242
 

(Interference with and Intervention in Voting or Ballot Counting)


(1) Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than three years:


<Amended by Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010; Act No. 10981, Jul. 28, 2011; Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012; Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>


1. Any person who requires another person to deposit his/her identification card required for voting under this Act with a third party or takes
over such identification card, who intervenes in the voting or ballot counting at a polling station (including an overseas polling station, an advance polling station, a shipboard polling place; hereafter the same shall apply in this CHAPTER) or ballot-counting place without a justifiable ground or who commits any act that may influence the voting or ballot counting, such as encouraging an elector to cast his/her vote for a specific political party or candidate or disclosing the vote at the polling station;


2. Any person who influences voting at residence, such as interfering with or obstructing the votes of persons voting at residence without any
justifiable ground or disclosing the votes of persons voting at residence or making other persons disclose the votes.


(2) Any person who destroys or damages any communication facilities installed by a ballot-counting witness as provided in Article 181 at a
ballot-counting place shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than five years.


(3) A public prosecutor, police officer (including a judicial police officer), or military serviceman (including a civilian belonging to a military
investigation agency) shall, if committing or making another person commit an act as provided in paragraph (1), be punished by imprisonment
with prison labor for not less than one year nor more than ten years.