Placing slips in urns and misappropriation of urns or voting slips

Anyone who fraudulently places voting slips in an urn before or after voting begins, who takes possession of an urn that contains voting slips that have been collected but not yet counted, or who takes possession of one or more voting slips at any point in time between the opening of the electoral station in question and the general count of the election shall be punished by a prison term of between six months and two years and a fine of between twenty thousand and two hundred thousand escudos.