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Article 104
 

The following are liable to […]1) imprisonment of up to four years:

a. if a person uses coercement measures or violence or threatens violence to interfere with another's freedom to vote, either by preventing the person from voting or by forcing the person to vote in a manner against his/her own wishes;

b. if a person knowingly distorts the voting by losing a vote, altering a vote, damaging or losing voting returns, creating ballots which are very similar to those used in elections and either making use of these or allowing others to make use of them, confusing the counting of votes or by other means.

1) Act No. 82/1998, Art. 241.