Section 107, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) A person who– (a) makes a false statement in an application for registration as a voter knowing it to be false; (b) after demand or requisition made of him under this Act and without just cause, fails to give the information in his possession or does not give the information within the time specified; (c) in the name of any other person, whether living, dead or fictitious, signs an application form for registration as a voter to have that other person registered as a voter; (d) transmits or is concerned with transmitting to any person as genuine a declaration relating to registration which is false in any material particular, knowing it to be false; (e) without lawful authority, destroys, mutilates, defaces or removes or makes any alteration in any notice or document required for the purpose of registration under this Act; (f) knowingly gives false information or makes a false statement with reference to an application for registration of his name or with reference to an objection to the retention of the name of a person in the Register of Voters; (g) challenges or objects to the inclusion of the name of another person in the Register of Voters on a ground he knows to be false; (h) offers anything of actual or prospective value to a person to induce that person not to register as a voter; (i) presents himself to be or does any act whereby he is by whatever name or description included in the Register of Voters for an electoral area in which he is not entitled to be registered; (j) having been disqualified from registering as a voter under an enactment, applies to be registered as a voter; (k) publishes a statement or report which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true so as to prevent persons who are qualified to register from registering as voters; (l) makes in a record, register or document which he is required to prepare, publish or keep for the purpose of registration of voters, an entry or statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true; 54 55 Interpretation of terms. registration of voters Form of local council Application of sections 60 to 97 to local council (m) impedes or obstructs a Registration Officer or a Revision Officer in the performance of his duties; (n) without lawful authority, wears the identification of a registration officer or assistant registration officer or wears any other identification purporting to be the identification of a Registration Officer or an Assistant Registration Officer; (o) by himself or any other person procures the registration of himself or any other person on the Register of Voters knowing that he or that other person is not entitled to be registered on that Register or is already registered on it; (p) by himself or any other person procures the registration of a dead or fictitious person; or (q) carries out registration of voters or revision of the Register of Voters at a centre or place not authorised or designated by the Electoral Commission, (2) A person who– (a) by duress, including threats of any kind causes or induces another person generally to refrain from registering as a voter; or (b) in any way hinders another person from registering as a voter, commits an offence and is liable on conviction, to a fine not less than ten million leones or to imprisonment for a term not less than two