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Article 5
 

Prohibition to Bribe Voters


1. A voter shall be a person eligible to vote at elections to the Seimas. During the political campaign of elections to the Seimas, i.e. from the announcement of the date of elections to the Seimas until the end of the period of election campaign as set out by this Law as well as on the election day it shall be prohibited to directly or indirectly buy votes, to induce by offering gifts or other rewards a voter to attend or not to attend elections and (or) to vote for or against one or another person to be nominated, a candidate or a list of candidates, as well as to promise to reward the voters for voting after the elections, by having a purpose to affect the will of voters regarding particular political parties or candidates, or persons to be nominated, and thus hinder citizens from implementing their right to vote.


2. Distribution free of charge of printed matter (an action programme or an election programme, a biography or other leaflets, calendars, postcards, stickers of information character) marked with symbols of a political party, a list of candidates, a candidate or a person who is intended to be nominated for or who intends to declare himself to be a candidate for Seimas member shall not be considered as bribery of voters.


3. Constituency electoral committees shall, in the manner prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission, examine and decide on the facts of bribery of voters and the Central Electoral Commission shall evaluate such facts. The Central Electoral Commission shall make public the established facts of bribery on its website together with a pledge of the candidate who has violated this Article to adhere to the prohibition to bribe voters. After the recognition of the facts of bribery of voters as a grave violation of this Law, the consequences defined in this Law and other laws shall arise.