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Article 164
 

Situations that may affect the result of voting:


(Change: 23/1/2008-5728/309 art.)



  1. Those who vote or allow others voting in place of absent voters whose names are written on voters list by using false stamps, signatures and fingerprints, are sentenced to three to five years in prison. 

  2. In case these actions are undertaken by president of members of ballot box committee and official servants, the sentences will be increased half of the amount mentioned above.

  3. Those who denaturate or makes denaturation of the results of elections or partially or totally disturb the electoral minute books or prepare fake minute books, are sentenced to five to eight years in prison.

  4. In case these actions are undertaken by president of members of ballot box committee and official servants, they will be sentenced to five to ten years in prison. 

  5. (Repealed first paragraph: 13/3/2008-5749/15 art.)


Those who compel the boards to undertake the actions defined in third clause, the sentence in the third clause is implemented by increasing one third to half. 


In case this action is the result of any affording advantage for members of the board, those who suggest any benefits and advantages to board members, the sentence will be implemented by adding one third to half of the sentence described in the fourth clause.