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Section 112, The Public Elections Act, 2012

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(1) A person who– (a) forges or fraudulently defaces or knowingly destroys the nomination papers of a candidate or the list of endorsed candidates of a political party; (b) delivers to another person or authority to whom nomination papers or lists of endorsed candidates of political parties are required to be delivered by this Act, a nomination paper or list of endorsed candidates of a political party knowing it to be forged; (c) signs a nomination paper as a candidate in more than one electoral area for the same (d) signs a nomination paper consenting to be a candidate at an election knowing that he is ineligible to be or disqualified from being a candidate at that election; (e) forges or counterfeits or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys a ballot paper or an official stamp or mark on a ballot paper; (f) not being a person entitled to be in possession of a ballot paper which has been marked with an official stamp or mark has the ballot paper in his possession; (g) without lawful authority, supplies a ballot paper to another person; (h) fraudulently puts into a ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in it; (i) without the authority of the Presiding Officer, brings into or takes out of the polling station, place of voting or place of election a ballot paper; (j) without lawful authority, destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box or packet or ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election; (k) without lawful authority prints a ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper; 60 61 Offences of buying and selling voter cards. Offences in respect of nomination papers, ballot papers, etc. (l) without lawful authority removes election material from a polling station before, during or after an election; (m) being authorised by the Electoral Commission to print ballot papers prints more than the number or quantity authorised by the Commission; (n) without lawful authority has in his possession a ballot paper; (o) without lawful authority destroys, takes, opens, disposes of or otherwise interferes with an election material in use or intended to be used for the purposes of an election; (p) for the purposes of an election, manufactures, constructs, imports, has in his possession, supplies or uses, or causes to be manufactured, constructed, imported, supplied or used, any appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may be extracted, affected or manipulated after having been deposited in a ballot box during polling at an election; or (q) not being authorised to do so under this Act, makes a mark on a ballot paper issued to a person other than to himself,

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