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Article 128
 

The following conduct is subject to prison for up to four years:


a. if anyone applies coercive measures or violence or threats of violence in order to disrupt a person's liberty to vote, either by way of preventing that person from casting a vote or forcing him or her to cast a vote for someone other than whom he or she wants to vote for,


b. if anyone knowingly falsifies a vote, either so that a vote is lost or damaged, or if anyone loses a vote that has been sent, supplies ballot papers that are very similar to those used in elections and utilises them or provides them to others so that they may utilise them, mixes up the results of the counting of the votes, or otherwise.