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Article 161
 

Crimes related with ballot:


(Change: 17/5/1979 - 2234/1 art.)


 (Changed first clause: 23/1/2008-5728/307 art.)  Those who change the place of ballot without appropriate procedure or without authority, remove the ballot, steal or damage or take the voting envelopes inside, steal or change the envelopes, are sentenced from three to five years in prison. 


 In case these actions are exercised by force, threat or by using power, the responsible will be subject to one times of the penalties.