Home > 1.3.2.2 Voting procedures > KOREA - Public Offical Election Act
 
 
 
Download file    
 
 
Article 248
 

(Deceptive Voting)


(1) Any person who assumes a false name, uses an altered or forged identification card, casts or makes another person cast a vote or attempts
to cast a vote in a deceptive way, shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than five years or by a fine not exceeding
ten million won.


(2) A member or employee of an election commission, or public official related to election affairs (including a voting clerk, advance polling clerk,
and ballot-counting clerk), if committing or making another person commit the act as provided in paragraph (1), shall be punished by imprisonment
with prison labor for not more than seven years.


<Amended by Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>