A person shall be guilty of an offence if—

(a) wilfully and without lawful authority, he takes, destroys, conceals, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers, or any packet of papers or documents of any kind then in use or intended to be used for the purposes of a Dáil election, or any ballot paper account or marked copy of a register of Dáil electors prepared or used for the purposes of the election, or any unused ballot paper, or
(b) he maliciously destroys, tears or defaces a ballot paper, or
(c) he forges or counterfeits a ballot paper or the official mark on a ballot paper, or
(d) without lawful authority, he supplies a ballot paper to any person, or
(e) he fraudulently puts into a ballot box any paper other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in it, or
(f) without lawful authority, he takes a ballot paper out of a polling