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Article 103
 

The following shall be liable to a fine, unless more severe punishment is prescribed in other Acts:

a. if a member of an election board or supervisor of absentee voting spies as to how a voter votes or has voted or knowingly provides misleading voting instructions,

b. if a member of an election board or supervisor of absentee voting, who provides assistance, reveals how a voter whom he/she has assisted, has voted,

c. if a member of an election board, supervisor of absentee voting, postman or party offering to transport election documents or ballot boxes delays the return of same,

d. if a person hinders others from going to the polls or voting by absentee voting,

e. if a person votes at two locations in the same municipal elections,

f. if a person offers money or other benefit to another person or promises another person money or other benefit in order to influence whether the latter votes or how he/she votes, or if a person deprives another person or threatens to deprive another person of employment or benefits for the same purpose,

g. if a person accepts money or other benefit for voting, not voting or voting in a certain manner.