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Article 142
 

(1st Article of Law 2234, amended on 17 May 1979.) Those who have registered an ineligible person to a voter register, and those who have abstained from registering an eligible person in a voter register, and those who have failed to remove an ineligible person from a voter register, and those who removed an eligible person from a voter register are sentenced for one year to two years.


In case these acts occurred due to negligence, indifference or the lack of attention during the duty, the offenders are sentenced for three months to six months.