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Article 57
 

Responsibility of officials and citizens for violation of election legislation.

1. Persons who hindered free execution of the right of citizens of Ukraine to vote and be elected, to carry out pre-election campaign publicity, by means of violence, fraud, threat, bribery or in other ways, or who appealed to or campaigned in public for boycotting elections, as well as chairman, deputy chairman, secretary and members of election commissions, authoritative or public officials from state bodies, bodies of local self-government, of public organizations who forged election documents, deliberately miscalculated the votes, violated the secrecy of voting, or otherwise violated this Law, shall bear the responsibility established by the law.

2. Persons who published or disseminated in other ways deliberately falsified data concerning a candidate shall also be called to account as provided by law.