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Article 151
 

Breach of voting secrecy


1 - Anyone who in, or within the five hundred metres immediately around, a polling station employs coercion or an artifice of any kind or uses his dominant influence over an elector to make the latter reveal how he voted shall be punished by a prison term of up to six months.
2 - Anyone who in, or within the five hundred metres immediately around, a polling station reveals which list he is going to vote or has voted for shall be punished by a fine of between one hundred and one thousand escudos.