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Article 47
 

Responsibility for infringement of citizens’ electoral rights

Criminal, administrative or other responsibility in conformity with the laws of KR shall be borne by the persons, who:


1) by force, fraud, threats, forgery or otherwise impede free exercise by Citizen of the right to elect and be elected, or violate secrecy of election, or infringe the rights of citizens to get familiarized with the voter list, or force citizens to put signatures in support of a candidate (or prevent from doing so) or participate in forgery of signatures, or bribe voters;
2) exploit the advantage of their official capacity or employment status to get elected; fail to form on time and specify information of the registered voters (voter list) prior to forwarding thereof to the appropriate election commission; violate election financing rules (including persons delaying transfer of funds to election commissions); issue ballots to citizens to enable voting for other persons; carry out forgery of electoral documents; prepare and issue false documents; intentionally miscount the votes or purposely determine voting returns or election results erroneously; fail to submit or publish information on voting returns and election results despite their duties;
3) spread deliberately false information about candidates and political parties or commit other actions discrediting the honor and dignity of candidates, their close relatives and representatives of candidates, political parties and their representatives; infringing the rights of election commission members, observers, international observers, representatives of candidates, political parties, mass media, including the right to get information and copies of election documents in time, unreasonably refuse to register observers, international observers, candidates, lists of candidates, political parties, candidates’ and political parties’ representatives, media representatives; prevent exercise of electoral rights at election precincts; or violate the rules of election campaigning, including campaigning on the day prior to the election day and the on voting day; prevent or unlawfully interfere with the work of election commissions connected with performance of their duties; take ballots out of the voting premises; fail to submit or publish statements on expenditures for preparation and conduct of elections, financial statements of candidates’ and political parties’ election funds, financial statements on expenditures of budgetary funds allocated for elections; employers, who refuse to provide leave for participation in elections established by the Constitutional Law.