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Article 117
 

Banned election propaganda and election sabotage


 


Banned election propaganda and election sabotage:



  1. To offer anyone money or advantages in order to have an effect on whether they cast a vote or for whom they cast a vote, to deprive a person or to threaten a person with the deprivation of his or her job or advantages for the same purpose, to promise money or advantages to a person if an election turns out this way or that way, to make it difficult for others to go to a polling session or to a pre-election polling station, as well as to apply coercive measures in connection with elections.

  2. To try to influence the voting, whether by speechmaking, printed or written addresses or advertising, by carrying or displaying the signs of a political organisation, the signs of lists or other such identification at the polling station, i.e. in the election room, the polling booth or other places inside or on the facilities where election takes place, as well as in the proximate vicinity.

  3. To have cars marked with the insignia of political organisations, the mark of lists or with other such identification, while the polling session is underway, as well as the use of bull-horns for propaganda during the same time.

  4. To give imprecise or misleading information about oneself or others, such as name, age, residence in Iceland, address or something else, that leads to or may lead to: a person being placed on the electoral register who is not entitled to be there; a person who is entitled to be on the electoral register either not being put on the register or being removed from it; or a person being made to cast a vote in lieu of another person who is listed on the electoral register (this applies in particular if a person considers himself or herself pro forma to be domiciled in a constituency solely for the purpose of being placed on the electoral register there).

  5. To issue misleading election guidance,

  6. To falsify a casting of votes, whether by damaging or changing a vote that has been cast, or by other means.