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Article 115
 



Any person taking an elector to account after the election for voting or asking the elector to say who he has voted for and why he has not voted for shall be fined or imprisoned for up to one year for the criminal act.



If the act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by a member of an election commission, a polling board or another carrying out duties with regard to the election, such a person shall be punished with a prison sentence from three months to three years.



Any person who, for the purpose of presentation, popularisation or attacking a particular electoral list, orders the use or uses army forces, military bodies, police, judiciary and state agencies and facilities and equipment of these bodies, as well as employees of these bodies and other persons working or co-operating with these bodies, if they execute such orders, shall be punished with a prison sentence of three years.



If the criminal act referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article is committed by the President of the Republic, the President of the Assembly, the President and members of the Government, the President and members of the Constitutional Court, the President and members of the Supreme Court, the State Prosecutor and his deputies, as well as relevant governmental officials on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, shall be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years.