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Article 92
 
The following are considered prohibited election propaganda and election violations:
a. offering a person money or other benefit to influence whether or not the person votes or how he/she casts a vote, depriving a person or threatening to deprive a person of employment or benefits for the same purpose, promising a person money or other payment if elections turn out one way or another, making it difficult for other persons to get to a polling station or vote in absentee voting, or using coercement measures in connection with an election;
b. to attempt to influence voting, either through public speaking, printed or written addresses or advertisements, by wearing or displaying a symbol of a political organisation, a symbol of a list or other such identification at an actual polling station, i.e. in the polling hall, polling booth or other location in or on the facilities where polling takes place or in the near vicinity;
c. to have a symbol of a political organisation, symbol of a list or other similar identification on a motor vehicle while polling is in progress, or to use a megaphone for propaganda purposes during this same time;
d. to give inexact or misleading information concerning oneself or others, such as name, age, place of residence in Iceland, address or other information, which leads or could lead to a person being entered on the register of electors who is not entitled to be there, or to a person not being entered or being removed from the register of electors who is entitled to be there, or to a person being allowed to vote in place of another who is on the register of electors. This includes especially a person professing ostensibly to have legal domicile in a municipality for the sole purpose of being entered on the register of electors there;
e. publishing misleading voting instructions;
f. distorting the voting returns, whether this is done by destroying or altering votes cast or by any other means.