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Article 247
 

(Deceptive Entry and Sealing)


(1) Any person who aids and abets another person to be listed on the electoral register (including the electoral registers of reported abode voters
and of reported shipboard voters; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) in a deceitful manner, who makes a misrepresentation in filing an
abode polling report, a shipboard polling report, or an overseas absentee report or in filing an application for the registration of an overseas
elector, or who files a false report on the resident registration with the intention of casting the vote at a specific election district, from 180 days
before the record date for the preparation of the electoral register to the day when the preparation of the electoral register is completed, or who
affixes a false signature, seal or thumb mark in cases provided in Article 157 (1) shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more
than three years or by a fine not exceeding five million won.


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


(2) A member or employee of an election commission, public official who is engaged in election affairs, or a person related to the preparation of an
electoral register shall, if failing to list an elector in the electoral register on purpose, or entering or making another person enter a false fact, be
punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than five years or by a fine not exceeding ten million won.